[CTS] Re: Back to School ?
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:05:35 -0500
The B-52C's you saw were likely upgraded to D or E models my 71/72. Guess
you mean Rolling Thunder for the 'Nam missions. Besides having history under
my belt I have some insight into the AF in SVN, my uncle was an aircraft
fabrication tech (filled bullet and schrapnel holes with metal plates after
they came back in) at Bien Hoa when it had that big airfield disaster. My
father in law would never talk about his MP duty there for either tour and
now that he's gone there's no chance of working it out of him.
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I left Loring in 1959 and some of those B-52s were popping rivets
then........ then they used them in the carpet bombing missions in 'Nam.
It's a miracle they were still flying in 1972.
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Russ Blakeman wrote:
Only difference was that in 72 they replaced the B-52's with FB-111A's
like we had at Plattsburgh NY and Pease NH - KC-135's were still there of
course.
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In the late 50's I was at Loring AFB, Me. in the 42nd Bomb Wing, the
first all jet bomb wing in the Air Force.
A squadron of B-52's and a squadron of KC-135's.......... yep, they
are big and they are noisey.
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