With one of its two motors wheezing fitfully, the World War II B-25 bomber flew high over Haiti's southeastern mountains, cut across the heart of Port-au-Prince, and dropped two homemade bombs near the presidential palace and two more on the capital's Bowen Field. Only one of the four exploded. Banking to the north, the plane then headed to a clandestine base located somewhere outside Haiti, apparently loaded up with more bombs, and proceeded on to a small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with 20 well-armed men, probably trainees from secret...
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