In December 1972, President Nixon launched Operation Linebacker II, the largest bombing campaign since WWII, intended to ...

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 ...

Vietnam was just another stretch of tropical coastline from seven miles up and 150 miles out. “It was all green with nice sandy looking beaches,” recalled Wayne Wachsmuth, 81, of North Newton Township ...

FORT WALTON BEACH — Long before Dick Rynearson would ever be known as the mayor of Fort Walton Beach, he spent his time in the skies flying the B-52 Stratofortress over Vietnam. Rynearson, 79, grew up ...

What You Need to Know: Airman 1st Class Albert Moore, the last U.S. airman to down an enemy fighter as a B-52 tail gunner, was honored this month at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. -Moore, ...

Despite soaring costs and complex retrofitting, the B-52’s deep modernization aims to transform it into a digitally upgraded B-52J, extending Cold War-era firepower into the 2050s and beyond. The ...