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...aircraft as you buy beans. I want it understood that no one man is responsible for the procurement of any kind of aircraft. I was the guy chiefly responsible for the B-36." And the B-36, he declared flatly, was "the world's outstanding bomber and the country should be proud...
Over the weekend, on a visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, he demonstrated his capabilities as a pilot by flying a 6-25 bomber on a 25-minute hop. He was still going strong, still finding the country wonderful, still looking, forward, with no perceptible glazing of the eyes, to visiting the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sun Valley, Idaho...
...reasonably expect in the future. He describes how light, mobile, powerful weapons such as recoilless guns have swung the advantage in land warfare back to the defense; how the co-ordination of radar net, jet-aircraft, and guided missile should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe war as crystallizing into a stable pattern-he states that a future war will bring "no such burst of new devices" as appeared in World War II. The devices...
Aboard the big bomber, Lieut. Colonel John Grable Jr. remembered later, he had passed the ditching order back through the intercom: "It wasn't the nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
...Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets...