Strategic Air Command was a Cold War-era United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber a
Boeing B-47B Stratojet executing a rocket-assisted take off (RATO) on 15 April 1954
11th Bombardment Wing Convair B-36J-5-CF Peacemaker, AF Ser. No. 52-2225, circa 1955, showing "Six turnin', four burnin'".
93 BW B-52Bs at Castle AFB after the 1957 fastest round-the-world flight.
Strategic Air Command logo on a B-47 on display at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler, Georgia
Offutt Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force base south of Omaha, adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska. It is the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command, the 557th Weather Wing, and the 55t
Strategic Air Command
…Forces (PACAF), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), and Air Education and Training Command (AETC), while SAC's central headquarters complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska was concurrently transferred to the newly created United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), which was established as a joint Unified…
An aerial view of Offutt AFB in 2007.
Offutt Field in October 1936, before the construction of hard runways and permanent facilities
Offutt in the mid-1940s as a war production plant for the Glenn L. Martin company
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay Building, U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters