The B-36 was a flying leviathan. It had a wingspan of 230 ... It is no small thing to say that the B-36 was the midwife of the modern bomber age. Quite literally, in fact, given its unique hybrid ...

By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber capable of flying long distances ... North American B-25 Mitchell One of ...

The B-36 Peacemaker was more than just another bomber in a long line of bombers. It was conceived to fight an enemy—the Nazis—that had collapsed by the time the bombers were built.