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When cooperation is given any more, strings of steel are attached. B-52s and KC-135s will be filmed for Universal-International's A Gathering of Eagles, but the planes' crews must be "in training" at the time. And Columbia's Flight from Ashiya (about the Air Rescue Service) has been bowdlerized at Pentagon insistence. In the original script, a paramedic says to an uncomprehending Arab girl: "I bet you'd be great in the sack...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
...52s, versatile Neptune antisubmarine patrol craft...
...when the Air Force would just be getting its RS-70s into operation, the U.S. will be protected by over 1,000 Atlas, Titan and Minuteman missiles, plus 650 Polaris missiles carried by submarines and more than 700 B-52s and B-58s. Without a single RS-70, said McNamara, U.S. retaliatory forces "would achieve practically complete destruction of the enemy target system-even after absorbing an initial nuclear attack...
...recent dispute over production of the B-70 has given him just such an opportunity. Two issues arise from this dispute. The first is whether the U.S. should spend $10 billion to develop the B-70, as the Air Force already has a large fleet of B-47s, B-52s and B-58s. The President and the Secretary of Defense have decided that the U.S. does not, despite LeMay's loud claims for the bomber's usefulness. But LeMay plans to continue his one-man war in Congress. This raises the second issue whether or not a military officer should...