Word: bombers
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Retired Chemical Engineer Charles Albright, 62, had been a navigator on a B-29 bomber in World War II, and, as he began planning for his own funeral, he recalled the Federal Government's promise that every war veteran could be buried in a national cemetery. The only such cemetery in his native West Virginia is in the town of Grafton, which suited Albright perfectly because his parents and grandparents are buried near by. But when he first inquired five years ago about a plot for himself, he learned that the three-acre Grafton National Cemetery had been full...
...free world. For this reason, the U.S. believes that any European hope of achieving a separate, regional détente with the Soviets is impossible. The allies can pursue their individual regional concerns solely because they are guarded by the massive nuclear deterrent posed by the American missile, submarine and bomber forces...
...Reagan, his most comprehensive foreign policy pronouncement to date was a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations on March 17. It was a classic example of rhetoric that raises far more questions than it answers. Reagan lambasted Carter for scrapping the B-1 bomber three years ago, but then turned around and chided the Administration for proposing "a costly and complex new missile system" (the MX). The vulnerability of America's land-based missile force requires "a faster remedy." Like what? But Reagan has moved on to the next subject...
...Pentagon 's National Military Command Center flashes out the presidential order for a counter strike. The aging squadrons of B-52s from bases in North and South Dakota roar into the air. Later, while flying over North Pole ice sheets approximately 1,500 miles from their objectives, each bomber drops a deadly load of up to 20 cruise missiles. Like oversize model aircraft, these small unmanned jets skim at 500 m.p.h. only 50ft. above the ocean. Finally, hedgehopping their way under air defenses, the cruises' nuclear warheads explode in mushroom clouds on their targets, Soviet air and naval...
...result, the U-2 was free to make discoveries that strongly influenced U.S. strategic policy for several years. The 1956 picture of M-4 Bison jet bombers lined up at one airfield showed virtually the entire Soviet production of the craft; only a few were found at the other fields, ferreted out by the U-2s. That convinced the Pentagon that the feared bomber gap was fictional. Three years later, the overhead view of the Tyuratam site (where all Soviet missiles were then tested) gave the U.S. some needed reassurance. Determining that the rocket booster aperture at the base...