You Might Want to Know: Butler III--The Mission of the "Strategic Air Command"
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General George Lee Butler became the Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command in 1991. What, exactly, was its mission?Thanks for reading You Might Want to Know! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. SAC had been created in 1946 as part of the big reorganization of the forces that was undertaken after World War II. General Curtis LeMay (1906-1990), the second Commander in Chief of SAC, in that post from 1948 to 1957, is universally acknowledged to be the Commander in Chief who made the Strategic Air Command into the elite Air Force unit it had come to be.
You Might Want to Know: Butler III--The Mission of the "Strategic Air Command"
You Might Want to Know: Butler III--The…
You Might Want to Know: Butler III--The Mission of the "Strategic Air Command"
General George Lee Butler became the Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command in 1991. What, exactly, was its mission?Thanks for reading You Might Want to Know! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. SAC had been created in 1946 as part of the big reorganization of the forces that was undertaken after World War II. General Curtis LeMay (1906-1990), the second Commander in Chief of SAC, in that post from 1948 to 1957, is universally acknowledged to be the Commander in Chief who made the Strategic Air Command into the elite Air Force unit it had come to be.