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Over the next two years, volunteers at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near Ashland [Nebraska] plan to restore one of the 12 Looking Glass airborne command centers that were an icon of the Cold War.
Officially known as an EC-135C, the aircraft were to be used as a command center for U.S. nuclear forces in the event ground-based command centers were destroyed or rendered inoperable in an attack by the Soviet Union.
Looking Glass was the code name for the mission that began Feb. 3, 1961, at the former Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base near Bellevue [Nebraska]. The planes flew around the clock. . .
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Thanks to the Journal Star for allowing this re-post here today.Happy reading,
JohnnyK
The Proud Cold Warrior
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