Word: khartoum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main supply line is by air-aboard Russian-built AN-12 turboprop transports from Algeria and Cairo to Khartoum airport for transshipment to the southern Sudanese town of Juba aboard smaller aircraft. Most of the turboprops bear Algerian markings but are flown by Russian pilots. The large part of the equipment was supplied by Ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Russia apparently has promised to replace all weapons they send to the Simbas...
Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
After transfer at Khartoum, the guns were flown on to Juba, capital of Sudan's Equatoria province, then loaded onto captured trucks and Land-Rovers for a jouncing ride over jungle tracks to the Congo border 150 miles away...
...Service DC-4 crashed on takeoff, killing seven, civilian aircraft were banned from landing. At the same time, help for the rebels, according to some reports, was filtering in from the Sudan, where "President" Christophe Gbenye and his wild-eyed defense minister, Gaston Soumialot, were holed up in Khartoum...
...after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch the regiment parade and "when the drums rolled and the brass shook the air, I could hear the saber clash, the hoofbeats, the rifle fire of The Dash for Khartoum, With Kitchener in the Soudan. My father would nod at us sagely and proudly. We belonged...