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...Have Faith" Anderson commands a squadron of the 98th Bomb Group in Korea. His lumbering Super-forts, like their pilots, are almost all veterans of another war. One day last week, Anderson led four Japan-based B-29s toward the rail bridges at Kwaksan. Before they had a chance to release their bombs, 30 MIGs jumped the mission and its cover...
...last week 34 U.S. B-29s lumbered up "MIG Alley" to drop 260 tons of bombs on bridges across the lower Yalu. The enemy's fast MIG-15s, squatting on their nests behind the Manchurian border, howled up to attack, 40 strong, in spite of 80 U.S. jets (50 F-84 Thunderjets and 30 F-86 Sabres) escorting the bombers...
There would be other explosions, the AEC made clear in its announced search for new weapons. Some of those suggested : baby A-bombs to be used by bombers smaller than the B-29s, missiles for tactical use by the Army, including atomic projectiles which might even be fired by artillery...
...Donnell, whose B-29s had bombed nearly everything in North Korea worthy of their attention, spoke the tough hangar talk of an airman. He was talking of capabilities, not of intentions. But those who were concerned with the Larger Picture were horrified at the possible suggestion that the U.S. might drop atom bombs on China. For his tough hangar talk, O'Donnell was duly slapped down by the Air Force's boss, General Hoyt Vandenberg, then went back to his proud job-command of the Fifteenth Air Force (long-range bombers) at March Air Force Base, Calif...
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. was asked by the Air Force to put the 2,000-ft.-long, 115-acre plant in Marietta, Ga. in shape for production. Where Bell Aircraft made B-47s during the war, Lockheed will start modifying B-29s. When Air Force procurement moves into high gear, Lockheed expects to start producing Boeing's six-jet B-47s as well as its own planes. To boss the new operation, Lockheed picked square-jawed James V. Carmichael, former Bell manager and onetime candidate for governor of Georgia...