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 ...

A Problem Plane from Day One The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First f ...

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 ...

Prologue: The poor players -- Operation Linebacker Two : the first day -- A booming sound -- The big ugly feller -- LeMay -- Early navigators and bomb aimers -- Training the Cold War Magellan -- ...

Earlier this month, Iran warned that the U.S. deployment of B-52 Stratofortress bombers to the Middle East would be a destabilizing presence,” and condemned the presence of U.S. aircraft and... What ...

Airman 1 st Class Albert Moore, who shot down an enemy MiG fighter jet from the tail of a B-52D during the Vietnam War, has been honored with a plaque at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The plaque was ...

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, ...

A nonprofit group hopes to recover the bodies of eight men who were lost when a B-52 bomber vanished in 1968. One of the crew members who went missing nearly 57 years ago this month was a Mansfield ...