Strategic Air Command

Warbirds Illustrated #9

by Lindsay T. Peacock

Strategic Air Command Warbirds #9 by Lindsay T. Peacock Arms & Armour U1

128 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Peter Fox · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book doesn't quite have the feel of an in-house publication by SAC, but it's not far removed. You get a fairly sanitised version of their history with no real wish to delve too deeply into broken arrow incidents or anything else that reflected badly upon the force. Similarly, there are no questions asked whether SAC and an arms race were really necessary, whether other solutions, such as diplomatic, could have been explored, or even if such large numbers of bombers and missiles even represented best value for money.


The best part of this book are the photographs. These take up half of the content and are splendid to see. However, the pose is fairly stilted. There is plenty on which particular bomb wing received which variant first and then flew it to break some record or other, but there is very little soul. There are no accounts from the people involved, or anecdotes recorded. This is a huge omission and weakens the readability.

[Robert Hepple · Rating 4 out of 5]

Published in 1983, 'Strategic Air Command' is number 9 in the 'Warbirds Illustrated' series of aviation photo albums from Arms & Armour Press. In this volume, around 133 photos provide an all too brief illustrated history of the development of SAC up to the time of print, focusing mainly on the aircraft of the organisation. The fine selection of photos are well captioned throughout.