Photos The Cold War

Cold War. Finland. 1961. Finnish soldiers conduct an NBC drill.
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Cold War,1950s :
In January 1957, three B-52s of the USAF under the codename "Operation Power Flite", led by Major-General Archie J. Old Jr., completed a record-breaking non-stop circumnavigation of the globe after flying for a total of 45 hours and 19 minutes.
Among those welcoming them back to March AFB, Cal., was legendary WW2 20th Air Force commander, General Curtis LeMay.
After they landed, General LeMay, as Commanding General of SAC, presented each of the twenty-seven crewmen with the Distinguished Flying Cross.
This is he on that occasion.
(LIFE / McCombe)

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Original caption reads: "Four Valiant bombers of No 49 Squadron (Wing Commander K G Hubbard OBE DFC) Royal Air Force Bomber Command, based at RAF Wittering, Northants, left in March (1957) for Christmas Island in the Pacific to take part in Britain's nuclear tests later in the year. The Valiants have been treated with anti-thermal radiation (anti-flash) paint and the cockpit windows have been fitted with shields to protect the crews from glare. Valiant crew number 2 of the detachment - (left to right) Flight Lieutenant David H Crowther (24) , navigator (of Stamford, Lincs and Grimsby, Lincs); Flight Lieutenant Donald W Bridges DFC (32), co-pilot (of Lealholm, Whitby, Yorkshire); Squadron Leader Arthur George Steele AFC (33), captain and pilot (of Hampstead, London NW3); Chief Technician W R Quinlan, the crew chief; Flight Lieutenant Wilfred A Jenkins (32), navigator and bomb aimer (of Bigsweir, St Briavels, Gloucestershire); and Flying Officer Charles J Scanlan (24) air-signaller (of Peterborough).
Source: IWM

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THUNDERSTREAKS of the Turkish Air Force

Between 1959 and 1966 the Turkish Air Force received nearly 300 second handed Thunderstreaks from France, Germany and the Netherlands, with which they equipped 9 squadrons.The Streaks were kept in service till 1974; the last units to fly the F-84F were nos 131 and 132 squadron based at Konya. The Turks replaced their Thunderstreaks by Northrop F-5s and subsequently scrapped nearly all of them.

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M60 tanks and M88 armoured recovery vehicles pass through a lock on the Albert Canal aboard a commercial barge during Exercise REFORGER '84
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US Airmen in chemical-biological warfare gear play a game of chess during Exercise TEAM SPIRIT '85
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Another iconic product of the United States' aviation industry...the streamlined and graceful North American XP-86...the prototype of what became the F-86 Sabrejet, and which subsequently rose to fame during the Korean War.
This image dates from 1947.
The design "borrowed" from German wartime research into swept wing technology...as did its nemesis, the Soviet MiG 15... which was its principal opponent in the skies over Korea.
The rest, as they say, is history...
( NASM Archives)

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