Nicaraguans know better than to fire at 6,000 U. S. marines who patrol, police and "neutralize" their country; but last week some of the marines began to fly about Nicaragua in airplanes, and Nicaraguans embraced enthusiastically the opportunity to snipe undetected at these planes from cover.
Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer, commanding the U. S. forces, announced that near Leon last week a plane piloted by Captain H. D. Campbell, winner of last year's Schiff Memorial Trophy,* was struck twelve times by bullets which tore away part of the...
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