Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be willing to spend money-and lives, too, if necessary-to nip small Communist aggressions. He does not in the least down-rate the basic importance of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and its capacity for massive retaliation. But the very existence of SAC, he holds, provides an opportunity to meet the less-than-total Communist strategy of ambiguity with a less-than-total U.S. strategy. This means that the U.S. must be psychologically, militarily and diplomatically prepared to fight "limited" nuclear wars to upset less-than-total Communist challenges...
RASCAL MISSILE made by Bell Aircraft Corp. will go to SAC units this month. By late October, B-47 bombers will start training flights with Rascal, which can carry a nuclear warhead 100 miles from plane to ground target...
Lieut. General Thomas S. Power, 51, picks up four-star rank as LeMay's hand-picked successor as boss of SAC. Long Island-born Bomber-Specialist Power quit the twelfth grade to work, joined up as an Army Air Corps flying cadet at 23, in World War II successfully led the first low-level B-29 fire raid on Tokyo for LeMay's long-range 21st Bomber Command. For six years he was LeMay's deputy at SAC. Restless, compact (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.), tiger-tense Tommy Power winds up three years as chief housekeeper...
...Research and Development. Mild-mannered, high-strung West Pointer Anderson led the England-based wartime 9th Bomber Command, showed worried high brass how to use the stepchild B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber as an effective tactical bomber. After top Pentagon staff jobs, he went back to command, led SAC's Eighth Air Force and later the Fifth Air Force in Korea...
What about the statement of General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, that SAC is ready to put out brush-fire wars with nuclear weapons? Replied the President: SAC can be used wherever the Defense Department sends it. But "when you get a picture of the great Strategic Air Command charging all over the world for little police troubles, of course, that would be entirely wrong...