HCC788 - G. I. Joe #13 - COMIC BOOK review - "Last Plane from Rio Lindo
Channel: HoodedCobraCommander788
Date: 2015-06-29

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G. I. Joe #13 credits: 
Larry Hama - Script
Mike Vosburg - Pencils
Jon D'Agostino - Inks
Joe Rosen - Letters
Bob Sharen - Colors

Sources and Information:

WREV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WREV

Algerian War:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War

The most widespread use of pseudo type operations was during the 'Battle of Algiers' in 1957. The principal French employer of covert agents in Algiers was the Fifth Bureau, the psychological warfare branch." The Fifth Bureau "made extensive use of 'turned' FLN members, one such network being run by Captain Paul-Alain Leger of the 10th Paras. "Persuaded" to work for the French forces included by the use of torture and threats against their family; these agents "mingled with FLN cadres. They planted incriminating forged documents, spread false rumors of treachery and fomented distrust. ... As a frenzy of throat-cutting and disemboweling broke out among confused and suspicious FLN cadres, nationalist slaughtered nationalist from April to September 1957 and did France's work for her."[29] But this type of operation involved individual operatives rather than organized covert units.

French Foreign Legion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion

 During the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), the Foreign Legion was brought to the brink of extinction after some officers, men, and the highly decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1REP) took part in the Generals' putsch.

Algiers putsch of 1961:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_putsch_of_1961

The Algiers putsch (French: Putsch d'Alger or Coup d'État d'Alger), also known as the Generals' putsch (Putsch des Généraux), was a failed coup d'état to overthrow French President Charles de Gaulle (aged 70) and establish a military junta.

The organisers of the putsch were opposed to the secret negotiations that French Prime Minister Michel Debré's government had started with the anti-colonialist National Liberation Front (FLN). 

Battle of Dien Bien Phu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu

Date 13 March – 7 May 1954
(1 month, 3 weeks and 3 days)

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Diên Biên Phu; Vietnamese: Chi?n d?ch Ði?n Biên Ph?) was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower.

Saint-Nazaire submarine base:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire_submarine_base

The submarine base of Saint-Nazaire is a large fortified U-boat pen built by the Germans during the Second World War in Saint Nazaire.