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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thick Soup. Last week a TIME correspondent watched a 6-47 squadron at Upper Heyford, England get ready for a routine day's work. (The squadron had recently flown from Limestone Air Force Base in Maine to England in 4 hr. and 37 min.) First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Dimension | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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