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The 11 days that brought an end to 11 years of war: The B-52 and Operation Linebacker II
By the eleventh day of Operation Linebacker II, the North Vietnamese were at the mercy of the B-52. The North Vietnamese returned to the...
How a Rogue B-52 pilot exposed leadership failure at Fairchild AFB
The 1994 crash that changed Air Force safety policy
On June 24, 1994, Lieutenant Colonel Bud Holland pushed his Boeing B-52H Stratofortress beyond every limit...
When a B-52 Stratofortress Strategic Bomber landed safely without its tail
Test pilot Charles F. “Chuck” Fisher flew the B-52 to Blytheville AFB, Arkansas, where the wind was straight down the runway, and an approach...
XB-52 and YB-52: How the B-52 Stratofortress Prototypes Proved Their Case
Rare archival photographs document the test missions that validated America's longest-serving strategic bomber
On July 7, 1953, a Boeing YB-52 Stratofortress rolled onto the Rogers...
How B-52 Tail Gunners downed two North Vietnamese MiG-21s and made the Strategic Bomber a MiG Killer
During Operation Linebacker II, two B-52D tail gunners belonging to the 307th Strategic Bomb Wing from U-Tapao RTAFB, Thailand, continued the long tradition of...