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...more atom bombs than B-36s. Of SAC's 14 striking groups, only three have the intercontinental bombers. The rest of SAC's groups are equipped with World War II-type heavy bombers, now known as mediums. There are eight groups of Boeing B-29s (which SAC pilots used to call "mouse-powered," and their 2,200-h.p. engines, "dollar alarm clocks"), and there are three groups of their beefed-up postwar cousins, the Boeing B-50s. The mediums can't fly from U.S. bases to Russia without elaborate aerial refueling,* but they could shuttle devastatingly between...
...ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until normal supply lines could be set up wherever they might...
Within four days and 23 hours after LeMay got his orders, Rosie's B-29s were bombing targets in Korea. LeMay almost worked up a pleased smile at this achievement,-then nearly bit through his pipestem when he heard that his high-bombers had been used, as they were never intended to be, in low, front-line support...
...with the whoosh of jet fighters. At an airfield, loudspeakers barked out flight orders in a mixture of English and French: "Castor Bleu, scramble . . . Cobra Jaune, en readiness dans quatre minutes" For three days, 450 planes of the Dutch, Belgian, British and French air forces, supplemented by U.S. B-29s, carried out Western Union's first air maneuvers. Exulted a French colonel: "Today there is actually a European air force . . . Maybe we're just a little ahead of the politicians...
...ground troops, who cheered the big bombers. But the effect on the North Koreans was negligible. Presumably it scared the wits out of them for a while, but next day the Communists launched a major attack (see Battle of Korea) through the area just pulverized by the B-29s...