Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dropping bombs on North Vietnam from a B-52 during the Vietnam War required access to information from down on the ground up to ...

On the plane to Hanoi in December of 2015, I opened my morning copy of the New York Times to find an article by Dave Philipps: “After 60 Years, B-52’s Still Dominate the U.S. Fleet.” The piece stuck ...

It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over. Communist North keeps sending large quantities of men and materiel south by ...

The B-52 flew in the Vietnam War. It still flies, most recently blasting Iranian ballistic missile and command-and-control sites. Why it matters: Few war machines have the staying power of the ...

Air Force Capt. Wayne Wachsmuth climbs a ladder to board the cockpit of a FB-111 fighter-bomber in this photograph from 1969. Wachsmuth was a B-52 bomber pilot who flew missions over Vietnam from 1966 ...

A US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 15, 2026, during a routine test mission. All eight people on board are believed 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 ...