Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge displayed a radar map showing that the 6-29 carrying eleven of the imprisoned flyers had been attacked by twelve enemy fighters near the North Korean town of Sonchon, some 15 miles south of the Yalu. Said Lodge: "We do not know where it dropped, but we do know where it was attacked...
...grey blockhouse and the scrambling jets are part of General Ben Chidlaw's Continental Air Defense Command. Like the Strategic Air Command, Chid law's Air Defense is at the ready every minute of the day and night. Its radar (see cut) and interceptors could make the difference between life and sudden death for millions of Amer icans and perhaps for the nation itself. No defense can be close to perfect, but the ever-alert, ever-expanding Continental Command is dedicated to the proposition that defense measures are practical, even in a ther- monuclear...
...Sept. 1 the Joint Chiefs of Staff upgraded and expanded the three-year-old Air Defense Command. General Chidlaw took operational control of all Army ack-ack and missile battalions, Navy patrol squadrons and radar picket ships, Marine Corps and Air National Guard fighter outfits assigned to air defense. The rechristened Continental Air Defense Command became an independent force reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs, who spelled out its mission in seven words: "Defend the United States against air attack...
...yourself," said Chidlaw. "More than 3,000,000 square miles of territory to protect, 10,000 miles of border to guard, and a fence to build ten, eleven or twelve miles high." He has, however, a growing supply of fence-including stakes and spikes:¶ More than 100 radar warning stations staffed by 10,000 airmen. ¶ Some 13,000 ground-observer posts manned by 370,000 civilian volunteers. ¶ Fifty-odd fighter squadrons equipped with more than 1,200 jet interceptors in the 600-m.p.h. class...
...More than 100 guided-missile launching sites for Nike antiaircraft rockets (which can shoot some 20 miles at supersonic speeds to destroy planes in mid-air). ¶ Several hundred emplaced 90-mm. and radar-aimed Skysweeper antiaircraft guns manned by 20,000 soldiers...