The RB-45C was the spying version of the B-45, the first jet-powered U.S. bomber. This four-jet-engined beast carried 12 cameras and penetrated several enemy territories ...

Unfortunately, in the process, the Tornado made history in an unenviable category on 4 December 1950 when Soviet MiG-15 “Fagot” pilot Aleksandr F. Andrianov shot down an RB-45C over Red China ...

Both the B-45 and RB-45C served in the United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command from 1950 until 1959; while from 1952-58, B-45s of the 47th Bomb Wing (Light) and RB-45s from the USAF 19th ...