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Just after 5 o'clock one afternoon last week, the B-47 City of Merced stood deadly quiet on the parking ramp of the March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif. Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee...
From Castle Air Force Base (near Merced, Calif.) came the City of Merced and her crew of veterans. After the first two flights in competition, the City of Merced was well down from the top of the scoreboard (which, because of the classified information on its face, was under around...
This was to be a "freestyle" bombing run, i.e., a visual approach was permitted, and the navigator-bombardier (now called the "observer") could make free use of his optical equipment, including a high-powered telescope in the bombsight. The Campbell Soup target was vital to the City of Merced, because...
Despite his visual alternative, Observer Jose ("Joe") Holguin chose to strike at Sacramento by radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to...
Halos Lost at Spokane. The City of Merced headed north through the gathering night toward Spokane and Target No. 2: the northeast corner of the main building of the Centennial Flouring Mills. For this test there was no visual alternative-an SAC umpire, aboard to make sure all rules were...