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...Commando Voice. Roughly 3,000 residents around the isolated village of Chimán on Panama's south coast recently were startled to hear a voice from an airplane loudspeaker: "Good morning, friends of Chimán. This is a Commando aircraft of the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Mayor, all towns that have an airfield are able to carry their products to market more quickly and in case of emergency are able to receive assistance promptly. We are able to help you build an airfield if you would like one." Commando planes dropped two strips of luminous orange tape...
...Force. Air Commandos, proud of their Anzac-style hats, live in a strange world of seemingly obsolete aircraft: the B-26 bomber, T-28 trainer, slow C46 and C-47 cargo-troop planes. Instead of supersonic jets, they have the U-10 monoplane, which can slow to 30 m.p.h. without stalling, is ideal for dropping leaflets or broadcasting by loudspeaker to villagers. Says one Commando officer: "A loudspeaker is a lot cheaper than...
...Commandos have sent training missions to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Mali, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador and El Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
...Most Distinguished." Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, the devil-may-care World War II hero who used 60-mm. mortar shells as hand grenades against the Germans, was there. So was Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, the Marine ace who shot 28 Japanese planes out of the sky and destroyed another 24 on the ground. A reformed alcoholic, Boyington is now a successful public relations man in North Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne...
...S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France's nine military districts, as it once did. Today, top officials claim, there are probably no more than 30 hardcore activists left in the country. While hundreds of fanatic anti-Gaullists have found refuge in neighboring countries (500 in Spain alone), they...