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...presume it is permissible for an original subscriber of your magazine to write a letter to you, about 27 years after. Several times I have been tempted, but I have always put the devil behind me. But age and your fine cover story on Lieut. General Curtis Emerson LeMay . . . have "done...
...best propaganda for peace I have seen. Not that Stalin and his confreres are not already aware of these facts, but . . . TIME'S Sept. 4 issue will be read avidly by one and all. Without question, General LeMay and his B-36s and our atom bombs are the principal deterrent keeping Russia from direct war. Which means that if the Soviets have the atom bomb ... in finished and deliverable condition . . . they have mighty...
This new TIME department has already brought you special roundups on Korea, Antitank Weapons, Air Power, Atomic ABCs, Indo-China, Lieut. General LeMay and his Strategic Air Command...
...thing that most worried LeMay and his command was the possibility that their outfit could be crippled before it ever got orders to strike back. LeMay has a hunch that SAC itself offers a more tempting initial target for an all-out Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay...
...Sample larder: 40 Ibs. of steak, 80 cans of soup, 20 boxes of cereal, five dozen tomatoes, five dozen apples, five dozen oranges, six dozen eggs, four gallons of milk, 100 tea bags, coffee, lettuce, celery, tomato and orange juice, water, sugar, salt & pepper. -In March 1949, one of LeMay's B-50s, Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen...