WR,
     In a message dated 03-02-98 you wrote ...
> Do you know of these north-bound flights in that cold-war era?
> Were they supplying the DEW line?  Can you shed some light on them?
     Yes, I know about them as I flew over 50 of the flights over various 
routes. They were called "Chrome Dome" missions in honor of Mr. Krushev. They 
were airborne alert missions of nuclear armed B-52s which in an emergency 
would have continued on and hit targets in the Soviet Union.
     There were many routes around the world.  The first ones yo-yoed across 
Canada and back for 24 hours before going home. Most went to about Prince of 
Wales Island and turned back... I was stationed at Fort Worth, Texas... We 
later had a route that went along the east Caost, over Greenland almost to 
the pole, then west to Alaska, out the Aleutians and back to Texas. The last 
route that I flew went across the Atlantic,
 across Spain, into the Mediterrean, and then back to USA.
      We usually flew in 2 plane cell with aircraft 1 mile
 and 1,000 feet separation.  I was flying the Spanish/Europe
 during the Cuban crisis..... And was over the Atlantic when
 Kennedy gave his "show-down" speech on TV...
     My last 50 missions were conventional from Guam to
 Vietnam during 1965 for the 'Nam mess. I quit after we
 came home from that...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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