Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.MOROCCO: The American Invasion
French Morocco is the site of the latest American invasion, peaceful but hectic, bringing airmen and planes and contractors with millions of dollars to spend.
The five big air bases which the U.S. is building in the northwest corner of Africa will handle anything that S.A.C. (the U.S. Strategic Air Command) now has or will have for years to come, including the jet-powered B-47 and the experimental XB-52. From Morocco, S.A.C. will be in easy range of Soviet targets in the Ukraine, the Caucasus oilfields—in fact, any targets in European Russia, from Moscow...
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