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Convair’s B-58 Hustler combined four J79 engines, area-rule shaping and lightweight honeycomb construction to reach Mach 2.2 and a 63,400-foot combat ceiling. Yet its short range, soaring costs and ...

One day last week a heavy-jowled, stocky general officer of the U.S. Army Air Forces flew the 100-odd miles back to his Guam headquarters from his B-29 bases at Saipan and Tinian. His aide, waiting ...

In the late 1930s, the US Army Air Corps set out to prove that long range bombers could find and strike ships at sea. During ...

This collection consists of home movies of General LeMay, including the following titles: Curtis Lemay's Trip To Vietnam; General Lemay's Trip To Maine; Fishing Trip; Guam And The Philippines #4; To ...

"Winning Armageddon tells the story of General Curtis E. LeMay's advocacy for nuclear first strikes while leading the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. LeMay argued for striking first in a ...

On the night of March 9, 1945, LeMay sent 346 huge B-29 bombers loaded with napalm from the Mariana Islands (Guam, Saipan and Tinian) to Tokyo. The first planes dropped their incendiaries on the front ...

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