For many years during the Vietnam War, the United States conducted a secret bombing campaign in Laos. The Ho Chi Minh Trail ran through this country and was a major supply route into South Vietnam. This is a review of the success of interdiction efforts by U.S. and allied air units in Laos along the enemy's lines of communication. A secret Project CHECO report (Contemporary Historical Evaluation of Combat Operations) produced by the U.S. Air Force and declassified in 2010, it goes into great detail about the units involved in these covert operations.

Air War Over Laos - Lucky Tiger Combat Operations

History

Trest, Warren

Military

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 have been made public and their names memorialized at the CIA’s Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories can now be told. The four guardsmen who died flew with a group of Alabama volunteers to secret CIA bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua to train Cuban exiles to fly B-26 bombers in support of the invasion forces. When the small group of exhausted pilots could no longer sustain the air battle, seven Alabama Guardsmen flew with them into combat on the final day of the invasion in a futile attempt to stave off defeat at the embattled beachhead. The body of one of these men, Thomas W. “Pete” Ray, remained in Cuba until 1978 where it was frozen as a war trophy and as evidence of U.S. complicity in the failed 1961 invasion.

Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard’s Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs

Dodd, Don

Americas

NewSouth Books

In this first authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth century civil rights movement. Patterson later recanted his segregationist views and went on to become a widely respected judge, but as governor from 1958–62, he led Alabama into full white-supremacist rebellion against the national effort to integrate schools and public accommodations. He was a rare Southern supporter of JFK in 1960, but the two broke bitterly over the 1961 Freedom Rides and Kennedy had to send federal marshals into Montgomery to quell KKK-led mobs. Not merely a civil rights account, Nobody But the People also details Patterson's World War II heroism, his role as attorney general in cleaning up vice and corruption, and his efforts to improve education and the economy. Patterson is revealed as a complex and likable politician and jurist whose career was unfortunately blighted by decisions he later regretted on racial issues.

Nobody But the People: The Life and Times of Alabama’s Youngest Governor

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

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