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When it came to hurling a sleek, eight-engined bomber halfway around the world, nobody could beat the Ai,r Force. Knocking out a couple of machine-gun nests on a scrubby Korean hillside was something else again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: TAG Has Its Day | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...Long-range bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Shot down a Soviet bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME News Quiz | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

During World War II, Cronin was direction of Civilian Defense but, despite elaborate preparations, not a bomber came in sight. In October 1948, City Manager John B. Atkinson asked him to reactivate a skeleton force of 150 key men from World...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Civil Defense Will Call All Students For Duty | 10/25/1950 | See Source »

...addition, the company won an assortment of experimental orders for aircraft, including the long-range penetration XF-88 Voodoo fighter, the tiny, bomber-borne XF-85 parasite jet fighter, the first ramjet helicopter ("Little Henry"), radio-controlled bombs and jet-powered "drone" aircraft to simulate attacks on fighter pilots during training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Up from the Doodlebug | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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