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Missing and given up for lost after an intensive six-day search last week was a Strategic Air Command RB-47E, a reconnaissance version of the B-47 jet bomber, and its six-man crew. Based in Britain, the plane, carrying a flock of cameras and a cabin full of electronic equipment, had sped north and east over Arctic waters on a mission that would have taken it into the Barents Sea 100 miles west of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya...
...Navy planes had prouder records in World War II than those made by Grumman Aircraft-the Wildcat and Hellcat fighters and the Avenger torpedo bomber. After the Battle of Savo Island, James Forrestal, then Under Secretary of the Navy, declared flatly: "Grumman saved Guadalcanal." In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called "the turkey shoot," they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record...
...spurred the U.S. and its allies to one of the great military-diplomatic achievements of history. Within months the allied nations began to rim the Communist land masses with a network of forward airbases that put to best advantage the single deterrent that the West then had-the atomic bomber. The process was stepped up during the Korean war, until now U.S. planes and ships operate out of 80 U.S. bases in 25 lands and territories. Under terms of bilateral treaties and NATO and SEATO alliances, the U.S. also has the stand-by use of some 170 other...
...admirals were reappraising the forward-base structure to see how it met the rapidly changing combination of military need and politics. The bases are indeed outgrowing the original military needs that spawned them. Many were built to bring the U.S.'s short-legged B-47 jet medium bombers within striking distances of Soviet targets and to provide for quick interception of Soviet bomber attacks. Prudently recognizing the danger of a military strategy that depends on bases in foreign hands, Pentagon planners rushed the development of military hardware that had the range to strike from home bases...
...billion more than the original Administration request and the total in the House-passed bill. In its mood of cold war militancy, it approved (85-0) multimillion-dollar boosts for the Atlas, Minuteman and Polaris missiles, pushed the Samos, Midas and Discoverer satellites, pumped new life into the B70 bomber and Bomarc antiaircraft-missile program, bolstered the Army's airlift capability, and earmarked $293 million for a conventionally powered supercarrier. Added by floor amendment were $90 million (for a $422 million total) to modernize Army weapons and $40 million to keep the Marine Corps...