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...Plata, the meat-packing city just downriver from the capital, the plotters successfully subverted the 7th Infantry Regiment. But soldiers and marines held the rebels at bay in the barracks until after dawn. Then the admiral sent jet planes to bomb and strafe the barracks, and the insurgents surrendered. Deeper in the pampas, plotters captured government buildings and a radio station at the cattle capital of Santa Rosa. Over the radio, for three hours, they demanded "freedom for all political prisoners, elections in six months, the cancellation of the Prebisch [economic recovery] Plan, lower living costs." As Rojas' 13th...
...river, but the only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered: "Print 500 more of those prayers...
...investigators were considering the request when another event took the decision out of their hands. The rebels sent out a P47 Thunderbolt that impudently buzzed an O.A.S. observer plane and went on to bomb and strafe the town of Liberia. At the same time, invaders' infantry and Figueres' volunteers met in a clash just north of Liberia. A few hours later, at 2 o'clock one morning this week, the council met again in emergency session and grimly voted to ask the U.S. to sell Costa Rica four P-51 Mustang fighters. That afternoon the planes were...
That afternoon, sending Mustangs and Thunderbolts from its six-plane air force to strafe the holdouts, the junta forced the surrender of the rebellious base and arrested its top officers. The army fell obediently silent. The President ordered his irregulars rearmed. Then, as if finally confident that he, after all, is the man in charge, Castillo Armas restored constitutional liberties which his junta had suspended, and moved from the rented side-street house he had occupied since the June victory and installed himself in the presidential palace...
...holes in the wire. The French put down a dense curtain of fire from light and heavy weapons, including 105-mm. howitzers; leaping, screaming, the Reds answered with machine guns, mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles. Bearcats and B-26s from Hanoi arrived to light the horrid scene with flares, to strafe the swarming guerrillas and sear them with napalm...