Strategic Air Command: People, Aircraft, and Missiles
- ISBN-10
- 0933852029
- ISBN-13
- 9780933852020
- Series
- Strategic Air Command
- Category
- History / Military / United States
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America
- Author
- Norman Polmar
Description
The official history of the U.S.Air Force's nuclear deterrent bomber and land-based missile force details the leadership, operations, weapons, and aircraft of a crucial air command since 1946.
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Other editions
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- 1988
- 115 pages
- Paperback
- Office of the Historian, Headquarters Strategic Air Command
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