Bombers Project Power From Last Frontier, Once Again
June 29, 2020
June 29, 2020
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, June 29 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news:
He who holds Alaska holds the world.
U.S. Army General Billy Mitchell first uttered those words in his 1935 testimony to Congress. Considered by many to be one the founding fathers of the U.S. Air Force, the World War I pilot declared what military aviators in the far north now know to be true--Alaska's strategic location is second to none.
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He who holds Alaska holds the world.
U.S. Army General Billy Mitchell first uttered those words in his 1935 testimony to Congress. Considered by many to be one the founding fathers of the U.S. Air Force, the World War I pilot declared what military aviators in the far north now know to be true--Alaska's strategic location is second to none.
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