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...best propaganda for peace I have seen. Not that Stalin and his confreres are not already aware of these facts, but . . . TIME'S Sept. 4 issue will be read avidly by one and all. Without question, General LeMay and his B-36s and our atom bombs are the principal deterrent keeping Russia from direct war. Which means that if the Soviets have the atom bomb ... in finished and deliverable condition . . . they have mighty...
...Grateful thanks for your article on General LeMay and the B-36s. My brother, T/Sgt. William G. Seymour, was headlined last fall as "the first B-36 casualty," following a crash during a takeoff. It is good to be reassured, as we were by your article, that he was doing some mighty good work...
Bazooka Boom. Thus with no fanfare last week, the Ford Motor Co., which made airplane engines in World War II, took on the job of making Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors for B-36s in Chicago's vast onetime Tucker plant. To boost GR-S synthetic rubber production up to a maximum of 760,000 tons a year, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need...
...number of B-36s now in service is secret, but the U.S. has 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...
Guarding themselves and keeping fit is a negative necessity; retaliating against an enemy is SAC's real job. That is why, nearly every night, the big B-36s nose through the long twilight of the 55th parallel, learning more & more about Russia's kind of weather, and how to get through it, in case of war, with their death-spreading weapons...