Vito Lasala

B-36 Cold War Shield (eBook, ePUB)

Navigator's Journal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of a B-36 crew, flying countless training missions while carrying full-sized 8,500-pound mock nuclear weapons in their bomb bays. B-36 crews trained for the one flight when they would be ordered to drop combat nuclear bombs on the USSR. Flights of fifteen hours over continental United States to grueling thirty-hour nonstop flights overseas were routine, all without the benefit of in-flight refuelingnot yet invented. The experiences of this crew, as they flew their assigned missions, are part of the history of our nations defense. They were part of our Cold War Shield.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504913584
• Artikelnr.: 52590804

Autorenporträt

The author enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War. While in basic training, he was selected to attend Navigation school and completed his training in 1954. He was then was assigned to the Sixth Bomb Wing of the Strategic Air Command, as a navigator in a B-36 heavy bomber aircraft. The crews in the B-36 aircraft flew missions all over the world, training every day with only one goal-to be ready, when ordered, to drop nuclear weapons on the USSR. The B-36 and its crews were our nation's Cold War Shield. The author was a part of that team during our Cold War with the USSR.