Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strategic Air Commander Thomas S. Power was chatting with the Omaha World-Herald's military reporter, Howard Silber. Power praised the reconnaissance capability of his B-58s ("they can go anywhere and do anything"), touted SAC's present strength, but insisted that a new manned bomber is still needed. Asked about rumors that he might soon quit, Power replied matter-of-factly: "I'm not quitting. They are asking me to leave...
...congressional testimony last August against the nuclear test ban treaty. At that time the Joint Chiefs, including Air Force Chief of Staff Curt LeMay, favored the treaty-at least publicly. Like LeMay, Power has expressed concern about overreliance on missiles, and urged the development of a new bomber-issues that Senator Barry Goldwater has raised politically and that McNamara has tried to refute...
Last week a U.S. Air Force RB-66B reconnaissance bomber bellowed off the runway at Toul-Rosieres airbase...
France, then sloped east by northeast on a routine, 2½hour "navigational training mission." The flight plan called for the 700-m.p.h., twin-jet bomber to swing over Germany's beautiful Mosel Valley to Hahn airbase, then bank north to Bremerhaven before returning with zigzags and altitude changes to Hahn and home. The flight plan should have brought the plane and its three-man crew no closer to the border than 70 miles. But somewhere between Hahn and Bremerhaven somebody slipped. According to one U.S. Air Force official last week: "They were about 120 miles off course...
...deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst into flames. I saw a fireball on one wing. The crew of three came out by parachute. The first two came out together. The third one came a bit later...