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One-Mile-in-Five
Earlier this summer I was talking with a fellow veteran and the subject of “one-mile-in-five” on the Interstate highways came up. The vague gist is that before WWII, Germany designed it…
As a general, Eisenhower had witnessed firsthand the usefulness of highways: first, the Red Ball Express circuit of trucks out of the Normandy beachhead needing dedicated roads to themselves, with France lacking a counterpart to the autobahn. All of this is not intended to be a dull litany of runway data but rather to show that the idea of using Interstate highways for for crisis dispersal of strategic bombers just wouldn’t work, even if it had ever been envisioned. Frantic SAC strike planning teams were described as exchanging this-or-that yield bomb the way boys trade baseball cards, trying to match preloaded ordnance and preselected targets.
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