Vietnam was just another stretch of tropical coastline from seven miles up and 150 miles out. “It was all green with nice sandy looking beaches,” recalled Wayne Wachsmuth, 81, of North Newton Township ...

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 ...

Airman First Class Albert Moore became the last B-52 gunner to down an enemy aircraft with rear guns in any American war. America’s war in Vietnam was a strategic failure. None of its main objectives ...

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 ...