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...dozen areas around the country. Red-led factory workers poured out of the industrial district north of La Paz, blew up a railroad bridge, and cut the only road connecting the city to its airport. Ovando rushed 3,000 troops to the area, and two air force F-51s snarled down to strafe sniper roosts. The factory workers refused to surrender, and as the dead and wounded were carried back to La Paz, Ovando seemed to lose his nerve, retiring to his bed and announcing that he was sick. Next day he met with emissaries from the Bolivian Workers Confederation...
...82nd Airborne before you!" In a strafing attack on the city's rebel-held radio station, a pair of General Imbert's loyalist F-51 fighters from San Isidro airbase accidentally machine-gunned a nearby Marine position. U.S. troops promptly shot down one of the F-51s. Next day, as loyalist F-51s prepared for another strike, a column of U.S. paratroopers arrived with orders to destroy the planes if their pilots so much as punched a starter button...
...Bring Them to Us." The Dominican air force was loyal to Wessin y Wessin. Up to this point he had only watched from the sidelines at San Isidro. At last he took a hand. Instead of a DC-3 to San Juan, he ordered his F-51s to strafe the palace and the approaches to the Duarte Bridge, which his tanks would cross to reach the city. Several people were killed in the raids, which roused the rebel radio and TV stations to a new frenzy. Well-known members of three Communist groups, including the 14th of June, appeared...
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...would also be a threat to Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has 45 Vampires and the men to fly them. Castro has jailed so many Cuban air force pilots as "war criminals'' that he cannot get his present fighter force (two P-51s, twelve P-47s and 17 Sea Furies) off the ground. The accepted method of combatting the clandestine flights from Florida is to send out cops in squad cars to race along the highways to try to find the planes when they land...