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for meetings with DPD and was visiting I I, Eglin Air Force Base en route back to ~lliDD at the outbreak of the revolt.* At one point it was planned that Campbell and another B-26 pilot would make an emergency flight to MADD with the bomb bays of the 8-26's loaded with ammunition and arms. By mid after- noon on 13 November, I I, Lt. Col. Frank Egan, who would soon (9/10 December 1960) take charge of the TRAV base, and Lt. Col. Quentin V. Earl, who in the absence of Billy Campbell was proceeding to the MADD base as commanding officer, went forward to Headquarters with a GOG request to use JMATE's B-26's and US pilots if they would volunteer to fight for the Ydigoras government.** MADD also indicated that ,!--------r--------- r--L- ~\. ** In an Oral History inte~view with the author on 15 June 76, Lt. Col. Billy B. Campbell (USAF, Ret.) offered a somewhat different version of the GOG approach to JMADD. Campbell stated that: Alejos had been at the base just prior to my getting back down and had Guat . troops and had threatened to take over the base -- JMADD -- and take over the aircraft and use his own pilots to quell the invasion which was coming up through Puerto Barrios and Honduras. 39c/ (footnote continued on following page)