B-36 'PEACEMAKER' UNITS OF THE COLD WAR: Combat Aircraft 144

Perhaps no other aircraft represents the popular American "bigger and better" theme than the extraordinary Convair B-36 "Peacemaker." While it lacked the revolutionary features of many experimental aircraft of the 1950s, it combined considerable technical innovation with an evolutionary design that begin in the 1930s with the B-17 Flying Fortress. Fully illustrated, some in color.