July
30, 1950
B-29
Bombers Redeployed to Guam
U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis
A. Johnson persuaded President Truman to transfer ten nuclear-ready B-29
bombers from the Strategic Air Command task force to Guam, along with
partially assembled atomic bombs that contained "everything but the
fissionable cores.
Initial SAC B-29 successes against North Korea in the
summer of 1950 were countered by subsequent Soviet MiG-15
fighter-interceptors, and SAC's 27th Fighter Escort Wing began
escorting the bombers with F–84 Thunderjets. Ground-directed bombing (GDB) was
subsequently used for close air support (CAS) missions after three SAC
radar bomb scoring (RBS) squadron detachments (Dets C, K, & N) arrived at Pusan in September 1950.
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