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The T-28 was not only used for training purposes, but was also employed in combat in the 1960s and was reportedly first used by the CIA in the former Belgian Congo.
When it entered service as a trainer in the early 1950s, few would have likely expected the North American Aviation T-28 Trojan to see use in a combat role.
Some portray Wingate as a visionary unconventional warrior; others as an unstable man. Regardless, he and his Chindits became the terror of the Japanese.