The Vietnam War was a vast calamity that cost millions of lives. In the chaos of the air war, MiGs and Phantom fighters duelled for supremacy, while B-52 bombers and other types smashed vast areas to ...

Dropping bombs on North Vietnam from a B-52 during the Vietnam War required access to information from down on the ground up to celestial heights, Air Force veteran Jim Colligan recalls. Colligan ...

The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries. “The first shootdown came on Dec. 18, 1972, after Turner’s B-52D took off from ...