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Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon which brought an end to the Vietnam War. A South Dakota Vietnam ...
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Flying the B-52: Cold War Giant, Still on Duty
The B-52 Stratofortress isn’t just a bomber it’s a flying piece of history, still serving decades after its first flight in ...
The consequences of these efforts would lead to the Vietnam War, a brutal conflict ... like the Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) to ...
The U.S. first became entangled in Vietnam warfare through its use of planes, and that’s how the country ultimately ended its involvement, too. The B-52 heavy bomber was developed in the late ...
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. Nguyen Thanh ...
In the latest show of force against Iran and Yemen's Houthi rebels, the United States has deployed at least six ...
By mid-1942, half a year after America entered the war, however, the U.S. Navy needed its own land-based heavy bomber capable of flying long distances with heavy ordnance loads. The Navy ordered ...
Technology The USA relied on high altitude bombers to drop heavy bombs in North Vietnam. They used jets to dump napalm, a chemical that burnt skin down to the bone, on suspected Vietcong ...
In recent weeks, the U.S. sent B-52 heavy bombers from the U.K.’s RAF Fairford Base, showcasing U.S. strength, global reach, and its potential added advantage when collaborating with allies in a ...