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...late in 1939, a tall, slender Kansan flew to New York to show the wartime British Purchasing Commission a light, twin-engined plane he hoped to sell as a trainer for fledgling pilots. Before he could close the deal, Dwane L. Wallace, then only 28 and president of the Cessna Aircraft Co. of Wichita, Kan., was asked for some financial data on his company. The bank balance, said he, was $3. Without batting an eye, persuasive President Wallace explained that he had a good line of credit, landed a $6,800,000 contract for 640 R.C.A.F. Cranes (modified Cessna...
Tactical Air. The Cessna, at times flying so low it scratched its belly on the treetops, was the rebels' tactical air force...
Right up to the dramatic climax of President Arbenz' forced resignation, the war in Guatemala was a strange, onesided air war, fought by three mysterious F47 Thunderbolts and an absurd little Cessna sports plane, all under the command of the leader of the anti-Communist rebels, Colonel Castillo Armas...
Grenades & Thunderbolts. In the air, meanwhile, Castillo Armas' pilots were scoring successes. His air force was tiny but effective. It took only a small Cessna plane, carrying hand grenades and a light machine gun, to blow up the gasoline tanks at the Pacific port of San Jose, thus forcing Arbenz into immediate and drastic gas rationing. F47 Thunderbolts -Castillo Armas would not say where they were flying from-strafed Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios. Arbenz was embarrassingly unable to fight back. His air force, made up of a few lightly armed trainers, was no match for F-47s, even...
...were looking nervously over their shoulders last week, as the pro-Communist government of President Jacobo Arbenz began to crack down on its opponents. A dozen prominent citizens made sudden dashes for asylum in foreign embassies; hundreds went into hiding. The country's leading aviator climbed into his Cessna and fled to El Salvador. The chief of the anti-Communist Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes at embassy...