Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...touched down at Cairo, swallowed up 650 blue-helmeted Swedish troops from the UNEF force at Gaza, disgorged them again 2,700 miles away in Leopoldville. Out of the shuttling intercontinental planes came food rations, Jeeps, heavy trucks, communications equipment, dismantled light planes. At the request of the U.N. command, the U.S. flew in ten Douglas C-47s, turned them over to U.N. pilots to help ferry U.N. troops around the country...
...days of nonstop flying, U.S. transports brought in some 7,000 U.N. troops, carried away some 10,000 refugees. Says Lieut. Colonel Frank Merritt, in command of operations at the Leopoldville end: "The boys have been at it long, hard hours, and so have the planes. Some of my boys have had to go 36 hours without sleep. Our Hercules planes have had remarkably little maintenance -they're the best damn planes we've ever...
Dense Air. Among the early loads were dismantled U.S. Army helicopters and a couple of seven-passenger de Havilland Beavers. Assembled in a matter of hours, they were set to work under the command of Lieut. Colonel Jerome B. Feldt of Kansas, flying into the bush to pick up handfuls of isolated missionaries...
...strong detachment of Moroccan troops headed south to Thysville and Matadi, two of the worst trouble spots. The tough Moroccan commander, Colonel Ben Omar, delivered a speech at every whistle stop, telling Congolese that the United Nations was in charge and would take no back talk. At Thysville's Camp Hardy he ordered the raising of the U.N. flag and told the mutineers, "We have been invited here by your government, and we are taking command." Rounding on a raggedly dressed Congolese, he asked him if he were a civilian or a soldier. A soldier, said the man. Roared...
...Camp Hardy early this month that mutinous Force Publique troops had locked up 35 Belgian officers and raped their wives. The soldiers then released the officers and asked them to resume command. "They refused because of what we did to their wives," said a puzzled mutineer. "Why? I gave my wife many times to white men." Another Congolese soldier explained that the European women who were raped were "bad women." He said: "They walked around in shorts showing their legs, but when black men came to them, they refused to shake hands. Belgian officers slept with our women...