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Austin's earlier report to U.N. made it clear that the twin-engined Soviet bomber had not so refrained: it had "passed over a screening ship and continued toward the center of the United Nations formation in a hostile manner. The bomber opened fire upon a United Nations fighter patrol, which returned its fire and shot it down." A U.N. destroyer fished the airman from the sea. His identification papers showed that he was Lieut. Gennady Vasilievich Mishin, serial number 25054. He was buried at Pusan...
...physical force. The Korean war is a weirdly pertinent example of the warning that Radford & Co. were trying to give the U.S. For their case, it was unfortunate that in their zest to make it, they got sidetracked in an assault on the Air Force's long-range bomber...
...commander of a B-36 is usually a captain or a major, on the average a seasoned "old man" of 29 years and 3,000 hours' flight experience. LeMay laced SAC with veteran pilots, navigators and bombardiers from his old World War II bomber commands in England, India and the Marianas. Around them he has tailored the individual B-36 flight crews, trains them for weeks in ground school and on the Consolidated assembly line before he allows them to set foot in the super-plane...
...bugs" in the 30 miles of wiring, tubing and cables that the crews dubbed it "the ramp rooster." But after long, slow shakedown, it is now admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...
LeMay first landed on SAC in October 1948, relieving Sg-year-old General George Kenney, MacArthur's top airman in World War II. Kenney, a good commander, had neither LeMay's training as a long-range bomber specialist, his experience as a battle pilot, nor his hard-driving temperament. Kenney's bombers spent much of their time making easy training flights, "just boring holes in the air," as one of them recalls it. LeMay picked the outfit up by the neck, shook it in a way none of the oldtimers will soon forget, and flung it across...