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...Strategic Air Command's 2,000 bombers; a SAC squadron of 20 B-47s can drop the explosive equivalent of several hundred million World War II heavy bombers; SAC wants $2.5 billion for more bases, bombers and tankers...
...barrier but can dump a thermonuclear payload (as it proved in a flight test last week) on a target less than five miles in diameter at a range of 5,000 miles. A really hot Air Force prospect is Rascal, an air-to-ground missile for firing from B-47s that can hit a target at supersonic speed and 100-mile range. One of Tommy White's biggest decisions to come: whether to develop another round of bombers to replace the B-58, or to wait for operational ballistic missiles...
Defeat. But the uprising was doomed to short life. By early evening Batista's troops and tanks were rolling into Cienfuegos from nearby Santa Clara, while B-26s and F-47s from Camp Columbia pounded away. The battle roared through the night, and by morning the rebels had fled into the hills or had died defending their battered strongholds...
...Legacy. Behind him, the little (5 ft. 7 in., 135 Ibs.) President left prosperity and surface stability, but no sound political philosophy, organization or heir apparent. In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country's undisputed ruler-shy and diffident in manner, often indecisive as an administrator, but capable on occasion of moving with stern severity...
...important fact of the exercise was that Operation Powerhouse, immense as it was, represented only a part of SAC's striking power. Excluded from the operation were SAC's B-52s, B-36s, F-84Fs (fighters with a nuclear strike capability) and a large number of B-47s. These were held in readiness against the event of actual war-for which SAC has stood on round-the-clock guard for the last eight years...