B-52 Stratofortress in Action
B-52 Stratofortress in Action (Aircraft 23) By Lou Drendel
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1979 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897470222 | PDF | 11 MB
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1979 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897470222 | PDF | 11 MB
After 17 years of SAC service, the B-52 finally laid to rest any doubts which might have lingered about it's ability to perform the strategic bombardment mission. During 11 days in December of 1972 the B-52's penetrated the strongest air defense network ever encountered in the history of aerial warfare to put their loads precisely on target. The targets were military and industrial complexes in the Hanoi/Haiphong area of North Vietnam. They were struck as a result of a continuing intransigence and faithless bargaining position of the enemy, and to demonstrate to the enemy that the United States had the means and the will to do whatever had to be done to negotiate the return of POW's, and an end to hostilities in Southeast Asia. That the enemy was in the end dishonest in his signing of a so-called "peace agreement" demonstrates beyond any doubt that if he had had the means to effectively resist the aerial onslaught of Linebacker II, he would have done so. For 11 days out of 11 years, the United States was anything but a paper tiger, as bombs rained virtually around the clock on the enemv homeland.