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Beale Air Force Base During the Cold War

Author : James B. Quest

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 32,66 MB

Release : 2014

Category : History

ISBN : 1467130818

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KLAXON! The alarm immediately sent the aircrews at Beale Air Force Base, California, scrambling to their alert aircraft in a race to get airborne first. The KC-135 tankers were usually the quickest to taxi out, with the B-52 bombers following closely behind. Soon, the air filled with the rumble of engines as aircraft roared down the runway trailing great clouds of exhaust and disappeared into the skies of Northern California. It was a dramatic scenario practiced many times during the Cold War and one that Universal Pictures filmed at Beale AFB for its movie A Gathering of Eagles, starring Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor.



Wheatland

Author : The Wheatland Historical Society

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 37,24 MB

Release : 2009

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738569772

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Against the backdrop of this western town, a number of dramatic historic events took place. While California was still Mexican territory, William Johnson purchased at auction the Mexican land grant formerly belonging to Pablo Gutierrez. Johnsons Rancho, as it came to be called, was the last stop on the Emigrant Trail to Sutters Fort in Sacramento. Seven members of the ill-fated Donner Party staggered into this ranch in 1847, seeking help for those left in the snowbound Sierra Nevada Mountains. Camp Far West was established here in 1849 as a military outpost to protect wagon trains heading into California, and when the state entered the Union in 1850, the area had become the logistic gateway to the Sierra foothill gold mines. Ultimately carved from Johnsons Rancho and incorporated in 1874, Wheatland became known for its agriculture and as a supply center to the mines, as well as being the site of the bloody 1913 Hop Riot, the first major migrant-worker labor confrontation in California.



Torrejón during The Cold War

Author : Manuel Carazo

Publisher : Punto Rojo Libros

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 46,51 MB

Release : 2021-01-27

Category : History

ISBN : 8418161043

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Torrejón Air Base opened officially on 1 June 1957 with SAC activating the 3970th Strategic Wing on 1 July 1957. The base hosting Sixteenth Air Force as well as SAC\"s 65th Air Division (Defense) where it cooperated with Spanish Air Force units in the Air Defense Direction Centers (ADDCs). The 65th Air Division directed base construction, and the establishment of off-base housing and radar sites. The division\"s fighter squadrons flew air defense interceptions over Spanish airspace.\r\nWith the phaseout of the B-47 from SAC in the mid-1960s, the need for SAC European bases diminished. The Sixteenth Air Force was turned over to United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) on 15 April 1966 and the strategic focus changed to tactical. Prior to 1966, Torrejón AB hosted TDY squadrons of tactical aircraft rotating from CONUS TAC bases which would perform 30-day rotations to Aviano Air Base Italy and Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. \r\nThis book tells the story of the Torrejon Air Base from.1957 to 1992\r\n



Air Force Fifty

Author : Air Force Association

Publisher : Turner Publishing Company

Page : 206 pages

File Size : 27,21 MB

Release : 1998

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ISBN : 1563114097

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Air Force Magazine

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Page : 648 pages

File Size : 37,35 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Aeronautics

ISBN :

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Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012: Air Force; FY2012 budget estimates: Air Force military construction program; FY2012 budget estimates: Air Force Reserve military construction program; FY2012 budget estimates: Air National Guard military construction program; FY2012 budget estimates: BRAC, 1995 Commission, Air Force; FY2012 budget estimates: BRAC, 205 Commission, Air Force

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

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Page : 954 pages

File Size : 10,57 MB

Release : 2011

Category : History

ISBN :

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Searching the Skies

Author : David Frank Winkler

Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 18,61 MB

Release : 1997

Category : History

ISBN :

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Originally published in 1997, this hitherto hard-to-find study examines the impact that construction of radar stations and command facilities had on the American landscape. With accompanying black and white photographs throughout, the author explores patterns, themes, and trends that created, influenced, and formed the backdrop to the Cold War defense radar program. This study provides an in-depth look at the radar systems, a state by state listing of the infrastructure that supported the systems, and an extensive bibliography. This historic content can be used to understand and evaluate properties associated with America's detection and command and control system.



Orbital Futures

Author : David N. Spires

Publisher :

Page : 624 pages

File Size : 13,39 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Astronautics, Military

ISBN :

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Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

Author : James J. Wirtz

Publisher : Georgetown University Press

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 27,46 MB

Release : 2022

Category : History

ISBN : 1647122449

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The first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current system, its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, the challenges posed by cyber threats, and the need to modernize the United States' Cold War-era system of systems.