What was the codename, in english, of the operation that the Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the 1st Transport group of the 1st Air Brigade was a part of when it was brought down by Montoneros in Operation Gardel?
Operation Gardel Operation Gardel was the codename given by the Peronist guerrilla organization Montoneros to the downing of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, belonging to the 1st Transport Group of the 1st Air Brigade, as it took off the old "Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo" International Airport, carrying 114 Gendarmerie personnel as part of the Operativo Independencia.
Freedom Flights Freedom Flights (known in Spanish as "Los vuelos de la libertad") transported Cubans to Miami twice daily, five times per week from 1965 to 1973. Its budget was about $12 million and it brought an estimated 300,000 refugees, making it the "largest airborne refugee operation in American history." The Freedom Flights were an important and unusual chapter of cooperation in the history of Cuban-American foreign relations, which is otherwise characterized by mutual distrust. The program changed the racial makeup of Miami and fueled the growth of the Cuban-American enclave there.