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Cold War Peacemaker: Story of Cowtown and Convairs B-36

Cold War Peacemaker: Story of Cowtown and Convairs B-36

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In history, few airplanes have captured the imagination like Convair's B-36 Peacemaker. The world's first intercontinental bomber served as a strategic deterrent against possible nuclear war and projected the global reach of the Air Force's new Strategic Air Command during the opening years of the Cold War. Many books have been written on this aircraft, this is one of the most intriguing aspects of the B-36 story - the place where the airplane came to be designed, manufactured, and test flown. Once known as Cowtown due to its abundance of cattle farms, Fort Worth, Texas, was home to the Convair plant adjacent to Carswell AFB and will forever be linked with the B-36's place in history. This book not only tells the story of this airplane's technical aspects, but also the political and social events that led to its development, the establishment of Fort Worth as its production site, and also newly discovered technical information.

Publisher: Specialty Press
Author: Dennis Jenkins
Format: HB