# CONSOLIDATED VULTEE B-36 BOMBER PROMOTIONAL FILM TARGET: PEACE 84534

Made by Consolidated Vultee to promote the B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber, this rare Cold War film is dedicated to the 8th and 15th Air Forces of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). As the narrator says, the mission of the aircraft was to serve as a strategic deterrent against the threat of a nuclear sneak attack: "When reason fails, strength prevails. If potential aggressors know that any armed attack will result in immediate retaliation, there may be no attack. Today the target is peace.." The film begins with a montage of America, with a narrator talking in great patriotic tones about "the America we know and love, an America of a people at peace, protected by an Air Force in control of the skies." The B-36 Peacemaker, built at Fort Worth, Texas, is then shown in some detail. The film shows the factory at 2:28 with its 2-mile-long assembly line. Top management at Vultee is seen at 2:30 , and USAF Strategic Command brass are seen at the factory as well. At 3:40 some of the assembly line for this enormous aircraft are shown. At 4:50 , it is shown that the Wright Bros. first flight isn't even 1/2 of the wingspan of the B-36. At 5:14 , the film references the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in justifying having an intercontinental bomber in the USA arsenal. The development of the B-36, an "ultra-long range" aircraft, was in response to this need. At 5:50 , the aircraft is seen being towed out of the assembly line. At 6:10 , Carswell Air Force Base in Ft. Worth is shown, near…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/84534TargetPeace)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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