April 28, 1998
Ammunition stocks in Kenya have been run down significantly in the fighting and further operations must wait until a second convoy arrives from the US. As a result of the ammunition shortage and the flooding the Somali and Sudanese invaders still retain a small foothold in northern Kenya.
Stuart Harris, leader of a gang of armed Scottish raiders, forms an alliance with two other armed gangs that are operating nearby, with the intention of controlling the Scottish countryside. He calls the group the Tartan Army and calls for other groups to join his alliance.
Unofficially,
Conditions over X Corps' front lines between Fairbanks and Anchorage remain overcast, delaying the airborne assault for another day.
A detachment of the Soviet 22nd Guards Motor-Rifle Division reaches the Yukon-British Columbia border.
A 5th Squad scouting group encounters another group of heavily armed men wandering the NATO rear area, these a motley group of German Army deserters and wayward stragglers, and a firefight breaks out. Three 5th Squad men are killed as are four Germans.
The first contingent of Italian engineers, escorted by a Carabinieri detachment, departs Turin to evaluate conditions at the Campore Basso hydropower plant.
In the early morning hours CIA agent David Hudson slips away from his shared bunk in the tractor barn ion a collective farm northeast of Moscow, bringing his radio, a supply of food and a Stenchin machinepistol with him.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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