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SAC time : a navigator in the Strategic Air Command
- Title
- SAC time : a navigator in the Strategic Air Command / Thomas E. Alexander ; edited by Dan K. Utley.
- Author
- Alexander, Thomas E., 1931-
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Utley, Dan K.
- Description
- xiii, 110 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Thomas E. Alexander was among 20,000 military service personnel ordered into the Strategic Air Command, formed in 1946 as US military and political leaders began to understand the growing nuclear threat posed by Stalin's USSR. Alexander served in this elite force for a number of years, designed as a primary deterrent to Soviet military ambitions. Alexander presents "an honest and reflective account of the impact the Cold War had on individuals who were then on the front lines of defense-like it or not." Dan Utley says of Alexander's narrative, "The story of an ordinary individual in extraordinary times has value ... These are stories Tom Alexander has waited much of his life to share with others, but they are as rich as the day they occurred.""--
- Series Statement
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; number 165
- Uniform Title
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 165.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Securing the Skies -- Getting Off the Ground -- Sorting Them Out -- From Mole Hole to Airborne -- Fallout over Falun -- A Stream and a Swagger -- The Truth Was in the Stars -- The Sheer Moment of Departure -- Cuba -- Flyover -- Afterword: Around the Campfire / Dan K. Utley.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-2525
- ISBN
- 9781623498436
- 1623498430
- LCCN
- 2019047668
- OCLC
- 1124774588
- Author
- Alexander, Thomas E., 1931- author.
- Title
- SAC time : a navigator in the Strategic Air Command / Thomas E. Alexander ; edited by Dan K. Utley.
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; number 165Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 165.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Utley, Dan K., editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-2525