Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Stewart, as the picture begins, is a $70,000 third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is called back into the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and assigned to SAC. He hates it at first, but he takes his lumps in the B-36s (including a crash in Greenland at 40° below), goes on to get his kicks from the world's fastest (more than 600 m.p.h.) operational jet bombers, the B-47s. By the time his tour is up, he is ready to sign on with the Air Force as a professional...
Strategic Air Command (Paramount) is one soaring, supercolossal recruiting poster. It tells the story of the men and machines whose job it is to be so good at their job that they will never have to do it. SAC is "the finger," as airmen call it, of the U.S. air arm, the corps that may have to carry The Bomb. The point of this picture: "We're the only thing that's keeping the peace." Though the story seldom gets off the ground, the planes do, and the camera follows them through some of the most majestic scenes...
...Until 1960, U.S. supremacy in strategic air power will continue to deter the Russians from risking all-out war. SAC's nuclear bombers, the British reason, are already in a position to cripple the Soviet Union, whereas the Red air force is still incapable of knocking...
Coastal radar runs from Vancouver to San Diego on the Pacific, from Labrador to Savannah on the Atlantic. Navy radar picket ships patrol offshore for added warning. Spot local radar nets have been built around critical targets-SAC bases, nuclear weapons centers and great cities. Mostly, the radar line is string-thin. Sometimes stations are closed for repairs. Usually, the radars are beamed high for maximum range, leaving gaps for low-level attack...
...Chidlaw's desk are three phones, colored red, white and black, for direct lines to his units, SAC headquarters and the Pentagon. His command is one of the Bell System's biggest customers (phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures...