Combat Bombing and Navigation Tactical Procedures; Operations SACM 55 -10

Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska: Strategic Air Command Headquarters, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Three-hole punched, disbound, help together with binder clip. iv. 144 pages. Figures. Tabular data. Tables. Formulae. Maps. Glossary. Originally Marked For Official Use Only. Notation on front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some page soiling. Page numbers have been omitted from unused pages 65 and 68. Scarce surviving copy. This manual augments information contained in the SAC Tactical Doctrine, the applicable aircrew flight and weapons handbooks, and AFM 51-40, concerning combat navigation and bombing for tactical crews assigned to the Strategic Air Command. While not all procedures contained herein are mandatory, the manual will be considered a firm guide to various methods of performing applicable tactics in execution of the assigned EWO [Electronic Warfare Officer] sortie. Where a choice of procedures is provided, crews will be responsible for becoming proficient in methods which best suit their individual requirements. This manual was in force during the period of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called "nuclear triad", with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy). SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG). However, SAC did not operate the KB-50, WB-50 and WB-47 weather reconnaissance aircraft operated through the mid and late 1960s by the Air Weather Service, nor did SAC operate the HC-130 or MC-130 operations aircraft capable of aerial refueling helicopters that were assigned to Tactical Air Command (TAC), then Military Airlift Command (MAC), and from 1990 onward, those MC-130 aircraft operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), or any AFRES (now Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)) or ANG tactical aerial refueling aircraft (e.g., HC-130, MC-130) operationally gained by TAC, MAC or AFSOC. SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF), Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans, Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and Personnel. At a lower echelon, SAC headquarters divisions included Aircraft Engineering, Missile Concept, and Strategic Communications.
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Keywords: Combat Operations, Bombing Calculation, Tactical Navigation, Mission Planning, Route Adherence, Celestial Navigation, Dead Reckoning, KOMPUR, Celestial Computer, Climatological Data, Horizontal Sighting, Range Adjustment, Radar Fixed Angle, SACM 55 -

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