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Airlift for Biafrans Faces Costly Peril and Criticism
Desmond Doran and colleagues lead a nighttime mercy airlift from Sao Tome to besieged Biafra delivering food and medicine amid anti-aircraft fire. Costs soar, planes are unarmed and often shot down, while U.S. officials decline involvement.
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New York
Biafra
Dachau
Desmond Doran
Order of the Holy Ghost Fathers
Biaframs
Nigeria
Philip Jarmack
Catherine
Menninger
Topeka
Vietnam
U.S
Sao Tom
Sao Toma
U.N
Doran
Jarmack
Sao