The B-57B became the aircraft the Air Force had really wanted all along, with a tandem cockpit, rotating bomb bay, forward firing guns, and the tactical features missing from the earliest versions.
At Phan Rang in October 1966, Martin engineer Eugene Young saw the B-57 fighting a war its designers had never anticipated.
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