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...colonel and assigned to SAC. He hates it at first, but he takes his lumps in the B-36s (including a crash in Greenland at 40° below), goes on to get his kicks from the world's fastest (more than 600 m.p.h.) operational jet bombers, the B-47s. By the time his tour is up, he is ready to sign on with the Air Force as a professional...
...under U.S. protection and pressure. Last week the Nationalists evacuated six-square-mile Nanchi Island, 90 miles south of the fallen Tachens-first taking off 2,000 civilians, then the garrison of some 5,000 troops. The Nanchi withdrawal was a purely Nationalist operation. Chiang's aging P-47s and PBYs (World War II prop planes), aided by Nationalist F-84 and F-86 jets, covered the move. U.S. air-sea rescue teams stood by in case of trouble, but did not take part...
...flying tanker to refuel swept-wing jet bombers, thus give the Strategic Air Command more mobility and range. SAC's B-47 bombers now get refueled in the air on their 10,000-mile missions from prop-driven KC-97 tankers. To do so, the B-47s have to drop from 40,000 ft. to 20,000 ft. With the new 707s, SAC bombers can take on fuel at combat altitudes and at combat speeds...
...47s, probably operating from Nicaragua, functioned as a strategic air force, doing the relatively heavy jobs...
...forcing Arbenz into immediate and drastic gas rationing. F47 Thunderbolts -Castillo Armas would not say where they were flying from-strafed Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios. Arbenz was embarrassingly unable to fight back. His air force, made up of a few lightly armed trainers, was no match for F-47s, even if he could trust his pilots. But four of them, at least, had defected, taking refuge in the Salvadoran Embassy...