Air Force-Pilots & Crewmen RVN:
TAC-Air, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF 1960s:
USAF Captain, Pilot, based in Thailand, 1960s:
Captain / Pilot A1E Skyraider RVN:
USAF Capt. Pilot 71st Air Command Squadron, (Tac-Air) RVN:
The B-52, demands respect, still in service today, the “BUFF” as the air-crew affectionately often called them (pertaining to Big Ugly Fat F____r) were Serious Air Support, the amount of Hell that a B-52 can unleash was stunningly horrifying in Vietnam, they could be quite effective at defeating the enemy on the ground. They had not acquired the ability to carry multiple cruise missiles at the time, but they did have nuclear capability, and the “dumb-bomb” or regular iron bombs, factor alone, uprooting trees, and leveling hamlets, clearing an area of a mile of any life or vegetation at a time, they were reachable by SAM Missles however, and from the NVAF Mig fighter Aircraft over Northern Vietnam.
A19 Tac. Fighter Wing:
