The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...
Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war. America’s war in Vietnam was a strategic failure. None of its main objectives ...
The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries. “The first shootdown came on Dec. 18, 1972, after Turner’s B-52D took off from ...
On the plane to Hanoi in December of 2015, I opened my morning copy of the New York Times to find an article by Dave Philipps: “After 60 Years, B-52’s Still Dominate the U.S. Fleet.” The piece stuck ...
-With a distinguished combat record stretching from Vietnam to the fight against ISIS, the venerable "BUFF" is now undergoing a major modernization. -Upgrades include new Rolls-Royce engines, advanced ...
Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S.