Alabama Air National Guard: Difference between revisions
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* [http://www.almont.ang.af.mil/ Alabama Air National Guard, 187th Fighter Wing] |
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Revision as of 21:13, 11 September 2008
The Alabama Air National Guard is the component of the United States Air National Guard operating within the state of Alabama.
Units
Role in the Bay of Pigs Invasion
According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson (who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama (Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua. Patterson agreed and then-commander, Major General George R. Doster was ordered to oversee all operation.
Notable personnel
External links
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