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...Agent. Nonetheless, it becomes apparent that he must have been a devil of a fellow, always hunted, sometimes caught, never held for keeps. He was only 23 when the Confederate government sent him to Canada with apparently unlimited funds. There he met with the top U.S. Copperheads, formed a "squadron" of Confederate saboteurs, and went to work. If he was really responsible for what happened after that, as Author Horan suggests, he may be one of the most neglected men of Civil War history...
...last week, 25 Mau Mau terrorists on the way to formal surrender were killed by a company of the King's African Rifles, in time of truce. Thus ended Operation China, the strange British attempt to win by negotiation what 6,000 British troops and a squadron of heavy bombers had failed to win by war: the surrender of Kenya's Mau Mau. Named for General China, the captured Mau Mau chieftain who saved himself from the gallows by promising to work with the British (TIME, March 8), Operation China had long remained as mysterious...
...bare, dimly lit squadron headquarters at Hanoi's Bach Mai Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...brave, cool and efficient fighting man. As he took the stand before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers who sat in judgment...
...into the memory of every combat pilot are moments of total recall-the unforgettable glimpses of a foeman starting to smoke, the inescapable sounds of the typewriter-tapping of tracer on fuselage and rudder. Captain Heinz Knoke, winner of Nazi Germany's coveted Rit-terkreuz and the youngest squadron commander in the Luftwaffe, pinpoints his most vivid memory high above Helgoland, one July day in 1943. In I Flew for the Führer, Knoke tells how his Messerschmitt squadron loaded up with 500-lb. fragmentation bombs and climbed high above a formation of U.S. Flying Fortresses. To break...