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Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
Tough, cigar-chomping Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, who succeeded Kenney as head of the Strategic Air Command, went even further. He did not argue that the B-36 was invulnerable to opposition; Bomber LeMay knew only too well that any aircraft can be knocked down. But, said LeMay, "I don't think the question whether it can be shot down enters in-it's whether you can penetrate to and destroy a target with acceptable losses . . . If called on to fight, I'll order out the B-36 crews and be in the first plane myself...
Died. Humphrey Verdon Roe, 71, pioneer British aviator and co-founder of A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. (manufacturers of Britain's World War II Lancaster bomber), husband of popular sexologist Dr. Marie Carmichael (Married Love) Stopes; after long illness; in London...
...Lattre and the defense ministers, however, are proceeding on the assumption that naval and bomber strength are primarily a U.S., not a Western Union, responsibility...
...bigger output of equipment for land armies and army-support aviation, as opposed to naval and long-range bomber construction...