After serving 10 years in the USAF flying B52's in Vietnam and other areas around the world. my grandfather was given the option to fly with SAC for 10 more years or get a job as an airline pilot. He chose option A, then later became a Presidential Agent under President Reagan. A great career by an equally great man.

To all the Men and Woman who served and died thank you for my freedom.... Thank you DAD My Dad is COL James D Harford retired Pilot and Commander B-52 pilot he was stationed in Guam and Utapoa Thailand. Line Backer 2 campaign. I was born in 1978 we were stationed at KI-Sawyer were my dad was the vice wing commander he retired in 1994. He flew the Buff from 1968 to 1994 I miss you dad and I love you I'll never forget what you told me about Vietnam and what you taught me and all I've learned about all military personnel and history.

Was at Utapao 6/72-6/73. Worked the jet engine test cell Next to the B52 ramp and the bomb dump. Night shift. We busted our asses out there, if fact, everybody in acft maitenance busted ass. But we got the job done.Remember during Linebacker 2 saw the shot up B52 trying to land, he didn't make it, and crashed in the jungle just off the end of the runway. He was trying his damnest to get that bird down, just to much battle damage.

@lancelot1953

5 жыл бұрын

Hi John, thank you for your service and keeping these airplanes in the air - it is the professionalism and the dedication of you "guys" that kept us safe in the air and enabled us to make it back safely. Ciao, L (Navy Veteran, 118 combat missions)

@princegroove

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing and for your service. Proud US Navy veteran here. 🇺🇸👊🏻💪🏻

Always welcomed the Heavy thunder-Earth Quakes from the B-52's in the Cambodian Jungles, engaging the North Viet-Namese forces who survived the bombing thru the night. Bombing reduced the number of forces we would be engaging in the comming days as they came towards our direction. Cobra Gun-ships ,& Spooky gun ships made a difference. Army INFANTRY, 199th INF. Brigade, best days of my life. Only GOD helped me live thru does days. Thanks to all B-52 Crews for they're great help. ,and my trusty M-16 who performed well with a Red hot Barrel but never failed me. Living today to an old age.

@apocyldoomer

4 жыл бұрын

sirvando vargas Thank you , welcome home, glad that you survived, REST in peace to those warriors that were killed, very sad, indeed, I was only 5 years old in 1969, Vietnam vets are my heroes, my cousin died in Vietnam in 1969, I have his death card, and his name is upon the wall.

@The_BIG_salad

7 ай бұрын

The pilot in the film is right, you couldn't ask for a better heavy artillery piece than the BUFF.

I'd say the B52 and Tu95 shall go down in history as the worlds most pivotal bombers. Both still in service . Nearing over 60 years old in general service.

Hi Periscope Film, thank you for these videos of an era long forgotten by a newer millennial generation. I lost 23 friends over three wars in my 28 year naval career - thank you for letting younger generations that the peace they enjoyed came at a price - regardless of the political mistakes of the past or the side combatants were on; we were all humans after all. Peace be with you, may we never forget the cost of war, Ciao, L (Navy Veteran, 118 combat missions)

@PeriscopeFilm

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you and God bless you for your service to our great nation. May all your dear departed friends in the service RIP.

@lancelot1953

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the words of encouragement - I truly appreciate the efforts and the work of the PeriscopeFilm staff for presenting the past, our past (USA) in the context it was lived/recorded - so that we may learn from previous mistakes (if any). The war years (whether Civil, World War, Korean, Vietnam and our newer conflicts...) are not to be forgotten whereas TV, movies, and computer shows glamorize and trivialize the horror and pain of it all. Thank you to PeriscopeFilm for remembering our people and the ones we fought against ... Ciao, L Captain US Navy (Ret).

@edvin_hook

Жыл бұрын

thank you for your service

@lancelot1953

Жыл бұрын

@@edvin_hook You are welcome, Edvin, Peace be with you, Ciao, L

It was mid 1968, we were making our way back to LZ Birmingham, a fire support base with about five or six 105mm artillery batteries stuck out on top of this hill, along side Highway 547, a dirt road that led up the center of the Au Shau valley. We, 3/5th Cav, originally based out of Bear Cat down in the Delta, we were put on an LST to Danang, where we transferred to several LSU;s to get in the shallow harbor at Phu Bai and after TET68 subsided down south, we were shipped north to be Op Con to any one of a bunch of other units in the Hue area as Tet68 was still raging up here. Can't have us down south lounging about getting a sun tan. Up here we worked for 1st and 3rd Marine, 101 Airborne, 1st Air Cav, and some Vietnamese units. Seldom did a day pass that we did not get shot at. Anybody that needed some Armor for a few days for one of their missions, essentially we were Rent a Tank or I guess more accurately Rent a Calvary. Seldom did we ever go anywhere by ourselves but today we had to make a run into "town", meaning Camp Evens. It was getting late to be out here by ourselves, and we had just crossed the pontoon bridge across the Perfume River and nearby there was a CB base camp (they built and maintained the pontoon bridge) where we pulled in for the night and some hot food. On other occasions we have made pit stops at a few other CB base camps as well as Marine Base camps, hot food is always a good idea when you can get it. Nice to chat up with some other people. In our line of work while on dismount missions we will find weapons caches and we are supposed to turn all that stuff in just like good little soldiers but we also know that there are people that like souvenirs and it is our job to supply them since we have so much of that crap. After dinner we do some bargaining and I had some old Chinese SKS rifles that I did not turn in so I traded the CBs for a brand new GMC 6-71 supercharger, still in the box. It was a spare replacement for one of their graders that had Detroit Diesel in it. ... they were never going to need it,they hoped. I got rid of some old SKS rifles from my inventory of trading goods. I hatched a plan of how to get this home to put on my race car. This was 1968 and this was as good a supercharger as any that was on race cars at the moment back home... and I had one now, a brand new one still in the box. Only two obstacles, get me home and get the supercharger home. A challenge for a different day. The new 6-71 supercharger was still sealed in the silver bag inside the red white and blue Detroit Diesel box and I tucked it away up in the front of the ACAV sitting on top of the stacks and stacks of ammo both 50cal and 7.62 M60 ammo that filled the bottom of the ACAV. We had so much weight in her that the torsion bar suspension was just about out of travel. Our TO&E is 10,000 rounds for every gun we have on board. The enemy plan is to over run us when we run out of ammo. That is a very big job that they had tried on many occasions, and never with success i might add. Although I will admit there were a couple of times...... Sorry for the acronyms .. ACAV is Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle, basically a highly modified M113. After dinner we set our our watch schedule and I drew mid watch, the worst one, where you get two hours of sleep, get up for two hours of watch, then get to sleep two more hours before we had to get on the move again. With a full belly and a new supercharger to sleep next to I laid down at about 11pm hoping to get a bit of extra sleep before I had to get up at 2am. I was awakened for my watch and the night as black as the inside of a cow, there was no moon tonight. . No one else was awake on our ACAV but even if we are inside a CB Base camp we always kept one man away at all times. It was about two thirty in the morning, it began with the ground starting to tremor, something you felt more than I heard it. Yes it was a WTF moment. I am not new in country, I am a seasoned soldier, I have seen a lot of shit... but WTF is this? A few seconds later as the horizon began to light up It took a moment before I realized that what I first thought was a sun rise it was happening in the north not the east. Unless dogs and cats are now sleeping together, this does not happen, it was then I realized what I was witnessing was a Arc Light B52 event in the Au Shau valley. With dozens of B52s each dropping 70,000 pounds of bombs it is a spectacle few have ever seen, and those that do see often do no survive it. The crescendo of the ground vibrating increased as the light got brighter and brighter holding that for a few minutes (I did not look at my watch) then both the light and the ground shaking subsided and the impenetrable dark of the night fell back over me. It was like it never happened, I has no one to share this with, everybody else spelt through it. I never saw it before and never saw it again and speaking to others in country not many did get to see it. Awesome does not even come close to the description. It was the night I saw the sun rise in the north..... if you are unaware of the B52 Arc LIght events google can be your friend. Now the story about the new supercharger... well that is a different story. I will write it up if you let me know you are interested.

@RowdyBorders-ni3ti

13 күн бұрын

Sounds like I could need my boots

Operating weight of over 400,000 LBS Is incredible. That behemoth gets up and flys over 500mph

@fredkeele6578

3 жыл бұрын

Thought the same. Amazing the ability to get that much weight in the air and do their job

@jeffcarroll1990shock

2 жыл бұрын

And yet somehow it can't compete with a bunch of guys hiding in trees.

@daybot1634

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and kill millions of innocent Vietnamese

@robertdipaola3447

2 ай бұрын

​@@jeffcarroll1990shockmostly in tunnels, when the bombing came,

The sad point was that they flew the same flight path, same height at the same time. Predictable, Very.. Thank you Mr Macnamara.

My Dad refueled B-52Ds at March AFB 1973-77. I loved watching them fly as a little guy living on base.

@diendidong

Жыл бұрын

it's a shame to have a father as a destroyer

@westcoastkennedy3184

Жыл бұрын

My dad was a tail gunner on a b-52 he was a CMSGT 4017ccts our family was at March from 1970-1977 when he retired after 27 years of service

@Dilley_G45

11 ай бұрын

​@@diendidongdestroyer of communists 👍🏻

@trent3872

10 ай бұрын

​@@diendidongTypical Democrat Communist.

@diendidong

10 ай бұрын

Communism or capitalism are just politics. innocent Vietnamese people suffered from bandits from the west. Do you feel ashamed that your parents used to work for bandits? Love people, respect peace.

The up-close footage of the retracting landing gear is quite impressive. 33:47

I remember Linebacker II as if it was yesterday! I was 75 miles due West of North Vietnam. (NKP)

I went over with Young Tiger and Arc Lite in may of 1965 and stayed until Nov. 1965. I was with the KC-135 refuelers in Okinawa and went back and forth to Guam for typhoon evacts ect. Also flew with the tankers refueling the B-52's before they went in to strike. It was an awesome sight to see the B-52 pilot and co-pilot looking up at the bottom of the tanker...........

Arc Light,"Charlie Dont See Them Or Hear Them"

A B-52 a friend you can depend on ✈️👍

I hope this crew made it out of Arc Light ok. You put faces on missions puts the humanity of B52 crews during a very dangerous time

Comments to this video show why this country will never be the same again. I was there! I served and am proud of that service to this country despite the treatment we got for it. We served, we did our duty and would do it again if my country called. It's about keeping you safe in your beds at home while others risk their lives to protect you!

I was in Kontum in 1972 and appreciated the noise they made. later I was just off the runway at Utapao Thailand and watched em take off headed for NVN I always wondered which ones didn't come back. thanks guys.

I went TDY to Utapao out Clark AFB working on C-130s. I really enjoyed this video and found it to be very interesting.

Smoking a cigarette in a B-52 !31:10 ! Now that is cool

Carrying a briefcase makes you professional, yep, sounds easy to impress the USAF.......There is an interesting sculpture of B52 & other parts at the Airforce museum in Hanoi as well as the B52 in the lake.

My dad is 80 yrs old. He was stationed at Anderson in Guam before 1970, because my family was stationed at Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, then moved to McGill AFB in Orlando when I was born in 1965. I don't remember him until I was 5 because of the war. He loaded bombs on B-52s in Guam over several TDYS, then almost went to Vietnam but the US were pulling out and he was sent to Clark AFB in the Philippines and saw all of the last refugees from Saigon. He also did short tours in Taiwan and China on his way home finally going South Dakota at Ellsworth AFB to work with Minuteman missiles. He stayed in SAC until it got too hard on our family, as any AF brat would know. You could come home from school one day and see your dad packing his gear and be gone in 2 days and your mom packing the house to be moving in a week. Anyway, my dad learned biomedical engineering and he stayed home and stable from then on. But he still doesn't like to talk about Vietnam because he knew were those bombs he loaded where going, he put dead bodies in wooden boxes, and saw the devastation of a conflict we had no buisness in continuing.

The B-52s did good in Arc Light but should have gone "up North" as early as 1965. I wish that Periscope did a better copy of this film.

@philgibson4896

9 жыл бұрын

We should have carpet bombed Hanoi and Haiphong right away. I imagine the original film was of average quality, and that a copy of it that we had the privilege of watching on youtube would be a little less clear. I thank the person who put this on youtube. Just remember that the original film is about 50 years old. We get spoiled with our modern digital quality of prime time TV. LOL

@philgibson4896

9 жыл бұрын

The problem with the N. Vietnamese air defenses during the 12/72 air raids was that they went through their entire inventory of SAM missiles. In the latter days of the December raids, the B-52s were unopposed, and had a field day over those two cities, as they started to methodically destroy those cities. Only the political pressures and the willingness of the N. Vietnamese leaders to plea for negotiations brought about an end to the effective air raids.

@wkat950

5 жыл бұрын

@@philgibson4896 you're right about the film. I guess all this business about "digital editing" has made me and a lot of others spoiled. Just glad we have the film after all these years. I'm a hair older than 50 and I'm not what I used to be either :D

@bobtis

4 жыл бұрын

@@philgibson4896 Should have not have stopped. Level that country and make them quit. Something that the US never did was really put the heat on the North. Just mind boggling. Coward LBJ. Kept it going way too long and people were so so sick of it with so many US soldiers killed

@killman369547

3 жыл бұрын

Striking north vietnam wasn't the issue, the issue was the north's SAM defenses which today would've been the very first things taken out before letting the B-52's go in.

There is an Arc Light memorial at Andersen AFB. It is suppose to be the last B52 to fly the last Arc Light mission.

@tombutcher5776

8 жыл бұрын

+maineville prepper Passed through Anderson on my way over. What a site watching those B-52's taking off loaded for bear...........then return "clean"!

Awesome video and great insight into the lives of these USAF heros!

I was stationed in Guam and got to ride in a KC-135( I believe it was) in the back and got to watch through the window while refueling a B-52. That was pretty damn awesome. They hit an air pocket and we could see the whites of the B-52 pilot's eyes.

I was stationed at takli afb on the 105s ,65 to 66 not far from there.

I do not know much about the B-52's and the power of their bombs. But, this is my recollection of being an FTG aboard a guided missile destroyer on the gunline in South Vietnam in 1970 and 1972. We would have firing missions and then have a cease fire because B-52's were in the area. Our ship was about 7 miles at sea, yet we could feel the vibration in the water from the B-52 bombs about 10 miles or more inland. Kind of like small earthquakes that lasted about 5 minutes.

Anyone who has ever seen an arc light air strike has see the utmost n air power, awsome

@oliverward7678

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't see it but was so close could feel it. Thunder of the gods.

Loaded bombs on 'buffs at Kaden ab 69-70 and again Thailand 70-71

@PeriscopeFilm

9 жыл бұрын

Lamar Plunkett Thanks for your service to our great nation.

@danphariss133

8 жыл бұрын

+Lamar Plunkett Thanks. Don't know where they came from but an Arc Light is an impressive event. Army infantry I Corps 1970-71.

@michaelterry1000

8 жыл бұрын

Ditto. Thank you.

Kubrick got it right with the General Buck Turgidson character!

This is amazingly rare!! Wow 👌

I was a B-52D, G, H model flight sim operator/tech at Castle AFB 67-70, retraining strategic G and H crews to the tactical D and back for emergency procedures. Peace was our profession...WWG1WGA

@geraldmorain3166

4 жыл бұрын

B52g 58 0184

@ernestsabatino826

3 жыл бұрын

I still live by castle afb, closed now. Worked on the 52s as a civilian there in the mid 70s. Been in this are since 1955.

@ernestsabatino826

3 жыл бұрын

Viet vet.

That Colonel looks like a tough guy! I wouldn't want to be on his bad side!

@dickwagner5520

7 ай бұрын

Alex Talmant and he was a tough guy but a great commander 5:40

Every time I see films about Vietnam tactics and strategy I get angry. LBJ micromanaging the war, this "halfway" war that killed 55K of our best. US generals planned to win battles not the war.

I worked with the 144th Avn (RR). Our units did the ARDF to help find the NVA on the ground so that Airclight could have targets. We were proud to be on the team!

Such an iconic and legendary plane. 🇺🇸👊🏻💪🏻

"Grandpa - you were in the Air Force and flew in a B-52, did you ever go to Vietnam ?" "Many times son, many times..."

What an awesome bird, still flying decades after it's inception.

Awesome video, good old beer, Schlitz, Carling Black Label, and I think Pabst! USAF from 1982-1986, George AFB, Asst Crew Chief on F-4 Phantom Tail # 66-6333. I am OLD! HA! George AFB closed a few years ago.

My father was with Sac Strategic Air Command during Vietnam four tour's completed retired out of March Air Force Base navigator lieutenant-colonel Robb Steinheider. Love you dad who's my hero ...

@diendidong

Жыл бұрын

it's a shame to have a father as a destroyer

I was in U-TAPAO in 1970, TDY from Westover AFB, MASS. 99th Bomb Wing, 99th AMS. Not a great place to be at. Nothing nice. Crappy barracks, crappy area. But we survived. I was Radar/Nav Tech. Our shop area was probably the cleanest place on the base. Lots of Snakes.............and not the good kind. I would love to re visit the area. From what I see on Google Earth..........it still looks like a dump. Imagine that.

Ive heard from vets that even at a safe distance in their trenches that B-52 strikes would make the entire earth around them act like a shaking mold of jello and they would bounce around like pinballs in the trench.

I hope there all ok and enjoying retirement after successful careers in the airline industry. I thank them for all they have done.

Amazing. The "Big Belly B-52D model carried 88 mk82 (500lb bombs) internally, and 24 mk83 (750 lb bombs) externally for a total of 108 bombs. Devastating.

@johnclark5098

4 ай бұрын

Devastating yes. For the families of the million civilians who were killed by carpet bombings in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

The USAF needed an airbase near a good port in Thailand, to shorten the transport of all those bombs and fuel needed for the B-52s. There was no site available, so a hill was removed and a swamp filled in to create Utapao airbase. It was typical of the airbases in Thailand, maybe a little better than most, due to location, but too much SAC for most of us AF types, glad I was in the NE of the country for my year!

All that work an effort just to be completely outclassed by some sharp bamboo rods placed in a hole.

These and many others were following orders from the President of the U.S. and flying a very capable aircraft. The B-52 is still in service as of July 2013 and is expected to finally be retired in the year 2040. That will make the B-52 85 years of service in the U.S. Air Force. I served with the 92d Bomb Wing in the late 70's, early 80's.

That’s gold

Bummer the model D variant only had front facing electronic jamming countermeasures, standard operating procedures (based on a multi-megaton payload) dictated a hard left turn following ordinance deployment. This meant the aircraft was completely exposed to missile lock by SA2 SAM sites when over places like Hanoi, resulting in loss of aircraft such as callsign ebony 2 (serial 56-0674) or LILAC 3 during operation linebacker II on 12/26/72. While heavy use of chaff strip countermeasures, changes to SOP removing the turn pattern, and over 100 supporting aircraft running countermeasures during operation linebacker II improved protection against SA2 (in addition to the improved model G b52 variant), even a small reduction in accompanying support aircraft could result in loss of crew/aircraft. Salute to those who served in USAF 🫡🇺🇸

El artillero es todo un personaje

Wow! The communist Vietnamese took a pretty sound ass whooping at Khe Sanh! The Marines lost 244, while the Vietnamese lost 15,000? That is a 60:1 kill ratio. That is epic! And the liberal media was working with the communists to try to tell us that Khe Sanh was a loss? What the? We handed Giap a severe ass whooping on that one.

@Nodogs3872

Жыл бұрын

If North VietNam didn't invaders South VietNam ?

@Nodogs3872

Жыл бұрын

Because US lost VietNam war and Afghanistan 😂 Bình luận của bạn làm tôi cười tuột mong 1500 vs 244 is normal but lost in Vietnam war Có phải Hoa Kỳ ghét Việt Nam tới tận xương máu như vậy không😂 buồn cười lmao

@Nodogs3872

Жыл бұрын

Nếu Pháp không xâm lược Việt Nam thì không có Chủ nghĩa tư bản và không có chủ nghĩa cộng sản thì Việt Nam theo chế phong kiến😂

@Nodogs3872

Жыл бұрын

Bro don't forget 9/11/2001 twin towers falls and started of Afghanistan-US war😂

@Nodogs3872

Жыл бұрын

I'm not a Communist and I'm not Capitalism

GOD..BLESS..THESE..MEN...GOD..BLESS..MY..DAD..82ND

crews Heavy on O-3s... E-8s, E-9s on the ground

Arc Light Rolling Thunder Linebacker 1 and 2

I got a pix somewhere of the scrapyard where they kept what was left of a Buff that had crashed in Thailand before they got back to Utapao I loved the rumble they made doing what they did best. saw furniture move on a concrete deck because of the shaking. NVA didn't appreciate it tho.

Good men doing a good job!

7th bomb wing, bullet shot II

That was their mistake. Using strategic bombers tactically. Should have carpet bombed Hanoi from the start, continually until NV pulled their troops out of the south.

@bobtis

4 жыл бұрын

That is all they needed to do but no wasted time and lives with such a loss of hardware. SMH to this day. I have read that SAC did not want LBJ to use their B-52's the way they were used but he overruled SAC. Such a genius on running the Vietnam War. Was not made for that use besides the cost of that aircraft.

@thomasfx3190

19 күн бұрын

…Or Mu Gia pass and Xepon every day until they stop sending trucks and men through it. Lost an uncle over Xepon, Laos in 1967.

That guy lighting up his stogie. Lol

@Sturminfantrist

3 жыл бұрын

good ol time when USAAF and later the USAF planes had ashtrays in the cockpit.

best bomber !!

I remember the thai floating market!!!!!

Crew Chief from Westover TDY 1970 march to July Okinawa Air Base --108 Bombs a mission, and then Cambodia broke out. We ran double missions for 3 days straight What an assume bomber. I never knew the importance of what we all were doing at the time. It must of been all the weed I smoked off duty.----------- down on BC Street.

@vietnamvetkatz9711

6 жыл бұрын

is that the same place as MA-1A Alley?

@johndoane6084

6 жыл бұрын

MA 1A alley was between BC street and Gate 2 street. Was at Kadena 2/76 -- 8/77. 18 AGS, Remember the yellow chicken patch.

Amazing getting 400,000 lbs to cruise thru the air. Anyone know what the max weight if a military aircraft is?

Hard to believe just 65 years later after 1903 Wright Brothers.

I wonder what ever happened to this crew. Where are they now

Paris Match reported as Dien Bien Phu on air for The American

good hunting

@klausbmj...I am sorry you feel that way but the troops can only do what the president says. What the men do with the girls there are up to the individual and the girls of the country themselves. I will give you this, as far as I am concerned there are other ways to bring security and peace to other than going to war all the time.

It's hard to believe that with all the technology America had. They still got there arses kicked.

@drugilbert2447

2 жыл бұрын

For the corporations the Vietnam war was a great victory. Not so much for anyone else.

@thomasfx3190

19 күн бұрын

I wouldn’t stay that. The north vietnamese lost at a minimum 1.5M people to our 58,200. And their country was absolutely devastated. It would have been great to keep south vietnam intact but considering how very few of them wanted to fight for their country and how the rest of them were horribly corrupt, it’s amazing we got anything done at all.

Arc Light vs. Rolling Thunder, vs. Linebacker??

@mattm9579

3 жыл бұрын

equals a whole LOT of bombs ,,, BOOOOOOOM !

I remember back to 1969 & 1970 while stationed with the 1st brigade of the 5th infantry division standing on an overwatch position on camp red devil in Quang Tri Province looking towards the north about 11 miles south of the DMZ seeing an extremely black horizion from east to west. The black I was observing was B-52 bomber's dropping 1000 pound bombs on the DMZ. I was amazed at this and once was part of a force that approached the DMZ to see the effect of the bombing runs ! Unbelieveable !!!!!!!

And to think you are in charge

Why are you guys wearing your hats on the flight line!!!!!!!

Standing on top of the bunker hoping to go home ?

Weren't the B-52 bombing missions said to be ineffective, based on payload to target hits? Still, I would not want to be the enemy under this carpet of bombs!

Anything on 99TH Bomb Wing from Westover ?

@vietnamvetkatz9711

6 жыл бұрын

Westover AFB 99th BW 1966 and 2 tdy's to Anderson 4133 bw 67,68,69. B-52 ground crew/ asst. crew chief.

@jonnaisakson1259

Жыл бұрын

@@vietnamvetkatz9711 My dad was a B52 tailgunner b/w 4133. Last name Isakson. Any memories?

so sad

phải nhắc đến Điện Biên Phủ trên không, bầu trời Hà Nội rực sáng!

Keep in mind that almost a million people fled the North at separation. After the fall of Saigon, 1.1 million fled the country. Hundreds of thousands were imprisoned in 're-education camps' afterwards. Hardly rousing support for Ho and the North. Again, look at the aggressors and their stated Communist goals.

Did any B52s get shot down over vietnam or did they fly to high to be shot at?

@yxeaviationphotog

5 ай бұрын

Yes, there were B-52s shot down over Vietnam.

@well-blazeredman6187

3 ай бұрын

The B-52 force had its share of losses, through operational accidents and enemy action. The concentrated bombing of North Vietnam led to relatively high losses. Most of these could be attributed to initially poor planning of large-scale raids, with routeing being flawed and ECM performance being compromised by manoeuvres. I gather that the USAF quickly improved the planning and losses fell.

Surprisingly the Russians didn't copy this like the B-29 they copied.

"Stateside rank" Soon will be changed to black. All rank was black when I was there.

@warplanner8852

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Butcher, and we wore plastic encased metal rank in those days so the harness wouldn't snag.

For USAF Airmen, no Hoo-Rah... jus' biznes

thả bôm gì như mưa ai chịu nổi

Only a handful got downed I think, so chances are the ones you saw all came back.

@jockatee

5 жыл бұрын

11 in 2 missions

Probably were 500 pound cast iron bombs

39 vc

They dont all make it back

Highly Motivated… Drive… Desire… Professionals… I wonder is anyone could survive if they took a shot of even 40 proof Gin or Whiskey (or any form of distilled liquor) every time the narrator says those words. At the very least you would be unable to see very clearly, or stand-up without falling over. And it would be very unlikely that one could succeed even in starting a car to worry about a DUI. But just from where I started counting at about 6:30, he’s said each of those words an additional 4 times each. And I am not even finished with the video yet.

Charlie don't never see them or hear them, man.

@sillyone52062

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah...one of the best lines in "Apocalypse Now"

@robertvalderaz7329

7 жыл бұрын

rein200, but like clock work, they knew we were on time...

Một cuộc chiến mà usa không được lợi gì chỉ tốn

Vietnam is part of asean and the allies of usa 2013

What a beautiful machine and what beautiful guys- incidentally its dresden not "dresdon' dick

50+ years later and people are still criticizing these men. Just keep in mind, it takes a real brave hero to press a button in heated leather seat 5 miles above the rice paddy to shred some peasants feeding their fams. Bet they still getting paid for PTSD too.

-viet nam

one day on these teams wins any SUPER BOWL

Arc Light was a spectacular failure.

@DerekDtj

10 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. As a member of SEATO, the SVN asked us to help them in the war. After the Linebacker II bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong in December 1972, the NVN surrendered unconditionally in March of 1973. About 18 months later, our liberal Congress pulled our funding from the SVN military and they were then overrun. Congress blamed "losing the war on the military," but it was Congress who lost the war, NOT OUR MILITARY!!

@WootTootZoot

10 жыл бұрын

Derek Detjen Sorry, the cut came from a joint amendment from both parties. One of the authors was a republican and had the support of more than half the Congressional republicans and most of the republican Senators, and Nixon himself who signed the bill.

@pinz2022

10 жыл бұрын

Derek Detjen I dunno, the Arc Light strikes against the NVA in the 1972 offensive paid dues because it was a conventional attack and they had to come out in the open. But I recall from a book about Khe Sanh, the Arc Light strikes there were completely compromised. The NVA commanders got a phone call two hours before showtime telling them exactly when and where. Anything that had to go through the ARVN command structure was given away. Same for a lot of the SOG Special Forces recon insertions. So many of them were given away and landed right into ambushes.

@philgibson4896

9 жыл бұрын

Don't blame the concept of strategic bombing on the men or the B-52. Blame LBJ who was too afraid to use the B-52 to do what it was built to do. He was deathly afraid that bombing Hanoi and Haiphong would bring China into the war. What a failure LBJ was. After the Vietnam War was over, the Chinese and Vietnamese were at war with each other. Nixon did a better job in that he ordered the strategic bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong until the North decided to negotiate rather than be put of out existence.

@truck87654321

9 жыл бұрын

WootTootZoot Republicans and Democrats in Congress are both liberal there are just a hand full of Conservative members in the Republican party and after Zell Miller retired there are none left in the DNC . So the statement Liberals in Congress cut funding and lost Vietnam to the commies is correct .

Such lovely family men off to drop bombs on other families.

@kontractor5229

10 жыл бұрын

And you are Free to criticize because the cost of Freedom has been paid in Blood.

@philgibson4896

9 жыл бұрын

No war is without a lot of horrible side effects that we never wanted to inflict. There is no pristine war, but apparently no one ever told you that.

@Excel4wd

9 жыл бұрын

No fight for freedom here... This was a slaughter.

@GHOSTDANCE666

9 жыл бұрын

zimtuff "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" - George Orwell paraphrase of Winston Churchill if you don't like it - get out in the streets and protest it - get politically active and oppose it - take a public stand against it - lobby your political representatives to stop it but don't sit there - enjoying the benefits of a democratic society built solely on the sacrifices of those young men - and bitch about it please

@zimtuff

9 жыл бұрын

GHOSTDANCE666 I do get out in the streets. I am politically active and I do sign petitions that lobby politicians.But dropping bombs from 40000ft is not heroic nor did it build democracy in your country or any other. Winston Churchill is responsible for slaughtering people who were fighting for democracy like those in Greece and Malaysia at the end of ww2. He also also was adamant (along with De Gaul) at keeping their colonial outposts in SE ASIA at the end of ww2. His ulterior motives were always about preserving the privileges of the wealthy elite of which he was he was a member by his birthright. Why the hell he quoted Orwell is beyond me. Orwell despised men like Churchill. Its obvious by your quotations and statements you are not very well read. You rely on simplistic sentiment and sickening patriotic statements to put your point across , but thats a standard of mediocrity I expect from Americans

04:27 "..., both girls." Ts ts, that's not a good conservative young non-hippie. But he can still make up for it and give some little soldiers to uncle sam, so they can push the body count... Strange time, what a weird conflict, but then again, aren't they all?! War - everybody loses. Every thing. "Highly motivated" to do so.