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Georges W. LeBanc was one of the pilots on the USS Essex who's plane went down using a cover "unit" VX-5 "air test and evaluation squadron." This is just another definition for saying "flying missions." The incident of this pilots mishap after receiving indiscriminate gunfire from Fidel Castro's army, lead him to crash somewhere in Cuba. Has Castro's government identified, and provided an accurate count of planes they shot-down during the three day battle at the Bay of Pigs? Were all the planes which were shot-down by Castro's government identified by the government? LeBanc's fighters squadron, and flying missions, will never be disclosed in full, as this squadron had taken an oath of secrecy. It's not what you know, but who you know.
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There's no online betting allowed or I'd say, how much do you want to bet it's this information in the fifth volume of the Bay of Pigs which is protected from disclosure, and can only be released by the president of the United States.
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This person's story has corroborated the date given me. The non-disclosure of factual information, and name of pilot.
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Is the government really going to contend the report of LaBanc's incident report to be an "engine flame out?" Or, what the report should really say, "engine fired on."
Don'tcha think it's time the family, as well as the world knows the truth? I will expose a lot of things soon.
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This is a story of the first incident, prior to the Bay of Pigs attack. During the BOPs one of the A4-2 Skyhawk's got shot-down from Castro's army. Kennedy knew it, and still refused an invasion.
"They were both Brigade FAL B-26s, painted as FAR B-26s.
8 B-26s, armed with 8 5 inch rockets, bombs and 8 nose mounted .50 Cal machine guns took off from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, to attack three Cuban airfields. A ninths B-26 took off from the same airfield but flew directly to Miami. The 8 that did the actual attack were to fly back to Nicaragua after completing their mission, whereas the ninth was to land in Miami and claim that it was a real FAR B-26 that had taken off from Cuba, bombed its own airfields and landed in Miami. That aircraft was painted as FAR "933'", supposedly the same that had defected to Miami in Dec 1958 when it was FAEC 933. Several of the Brigade aircraft shared the same registration to make it appear that less bombers were involved than actually were.
One of the aircraft that did the actual attack on Campo Libertad in Havana, was, for one reason or another unable to fly back to Nicaragua after delivering its ordnance and landed in Boca Chica NAS. As fate would have it, the real attacker that landed in Boca Chica had the same registration as the one that landed in Miami.
In a book called "Artillero de Cola" (tail gunner) a Cuban B-26 tail gunner writes that in Feb or March 1961 he was patrolling out of Santiago the Cuba in B-26 "931". He specifies that it was fitted with 6 nose guns, 4 under wing guns, and a top and bottom tail turret with two .50 Cal each. They had been sent to check out a large ship which had been reported some 30 nautical miles off the coast of Cuba, which turned out was a Soviet Tanker which was en route to Santiago de Cuba. On their way back, they were joined from the rear by a pair of A4 Skyhawks, probably from Guantanamo. One came right along the back side of the B-26, while the other stayed farther aft and higher. The one right behind was very close, where the tail gunner was able to keep him in his gunners sights. The B-26's captain, went to Max Continuous power, ordered the tail gunner to arm his guns, while attempting to communicate with his base, through the Santiago control tower. The pair of A4s followed. After a while the A4 moved over to the side where the B-26 was no longer in the A-4s' sights, but strayed very close, inside of 150 feet. It lowered its flaps and cycled its gear a few times to keep pace with the B-26. The other A4 maneuvered father away, so the gunner could not keep both in its sights at the same time. He could see the pilots eyes looking at him, with a red helmet and his oxygen mask. The aircraft was written NAVY in big black letters on the side, was gray, and the tail had a black and yellow checkerboard looking diagram and was registered 2747.
By then the B-26 was nearing Santiago and the A-4s were clearly inside of Cuban Airspace. The B-26 suddenly pulled back on the power, forced the two A4s to overtake it and as they did he fired in between them with all forward firing guns, some of which misfired. The A4 then pulled away and left.
After landing, the Captain of the B-26, Jacques Lagas, was blasted by Raoul Castro in person for almost causing a major incident with the Americans.........
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The aircraft in which this incident occurred is supposed to be the one located today in San Antonio."
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/ph...1&start=60
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(This post was last modified: 12-04-2016, 04:55 PM by Scott Kaiser.)
The official report states, Lt. Georges E. "Frenchy" LeBlanc, a VX-5 pilot, ejected safely when his engine flamed out at an altitude of 11,000 feet over the Dallas, TX, area while LeBlanc, Lt. Paul Weitz, and Lt. Charles H . Brown were in flight from NOTS to Cherry Point, NC. He attempted two air starts and ejected at 4,000 feet.
But, I find no other information on him, can anyone else?
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There is also this report; Lcdr. Georges E. "Frenchy" LeBlanc in A-4C 149613 sheared off his nose gear while landing. Aircraft skidded off the angled deck and flipped. LeBlanc escaped and was picked up by helo having suffered lacerations and a broken leg.
Could the story I'm getting be true, and at onetime, his plane was shot-down, there's no record of him being captured in Cuba. Here is a list off what ships had some of the early A4-Skyhawks and where they were stationed, does anyone see the U.S.S. Essex anywhere? Or. am I over looking it?
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[quote=Scott Kaiser][QUOTE]The official report states, Lt. Georges E. "Frenchy" LeBlanc, a VX-5 pilot, ejected safely when his engine flamed out at an altitude of 11,000 feet over the Dallas, TX, area while LeBlanc, Lt. Paul Weitz, and Lt. Charles H . Brown were in flight from NOTS to Cherry Point, NC. He attempted two air starts and ejected at 4,000 feet.
But, I find no other information on him, can anyone else?[/QUOTE]
Is this passage saying what I think it's saying? That LeBlanc "attempted" not one, but "two" flights, and both planes that same day crashed? the first he ejected out of an altitude of 11,000 feet, and the second at 4,000 feet with at least one of the planes he ejected out of was [over the Dallas Texas suburb]? Wouldn't a plane at that altitude been pulverized into pieces sending parts of the plane miles away from the crash sight? Which would have certainly made news in Dallas would it not? Or, did the plane go down in the golf of Mexico unable to bet a landing on the USS Essex, and so, not wanting to take that chance, he ejected just a mile or so from the carrier? Get the truth!
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Prior to the actual landing of the Brigade at the "Bay of Pigs." As fate would have it, the real attacker that landed in "Boca Chica" had the same registration as the one that landed in Miami.
The original attack was to take place at Trinidad Cuba. Could it be because of where the attacker landed in "Boca Chica" is the reason for the change in venue? This is how Kennedy knew about a loss of a A4 Skyhawk.
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If in-case the reader didn't pick up on this, the author of this post said that Raul blasted his pilot for almost starting something with the United States, and this pilot landed in "Boca Chica," however, there is no "Boca Chica" Cuba, that city only exists in the Dominican Republic, so why would Raul need to blast his pilot? Because he landed in BahÃa de cochinos.
And, the truth shall set me free!
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