Linebacker II a view from the rockDIANE Publishing, 1979 - 208 pages |
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307th Strategic Wing 43SW History 8AF History activity Air Division Provisional Air Force Base airplane altitude Andersen AFB attack B-52 Stratofortress Binh Blytheville bomb release bomb run bombardment BOMBER ROUTE briefing Brig Gen BUFF campaign Capt cell Charlie Tower Chronology completed Consolidated Aircraft copilot crew force crewmembers Damage Analysis Dang December defenses effort Eighth Air Force enemy engines F-4 CHAFF fighter fired flew flight flown flying frag fuel G model Guam gunner Haiphong Hanoi inflight Kinh launch LINEBACKER LINEBACKER II losses maintenance maneuver MIGs miles missile Navy nickname night Ninh North Vietnam Offutt AFB operations pilot POWs prepared by HQ press-on radar radar navigator raids reported Royal Thai Navy runway SAMs SECRET sorties Southeast Asia Squadron staff Strategic Wing Stratofortress strike tactics takeoff tankers target area Thailand U-Tapao USAF AIROPS Vietnamese wave wing commanders Wing Provisional
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Page 173 - SAMs; they had none left, and what would come in overland from China would be a mere trickle. They and their whole rear base at that point were at your mercy. They would have taken any terms. And that is why, of course, you actually got a peace agreement in January, which you had not been able to get in October.
Page 173 - May 8 brought about the breakthrough in October, and I said then that I did not want to speculate on North Vietnamese motives. I have too much trouble analyzing our own. I will give the same answer to your question, but I will say that there was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was a rapid movement when negotiations resumed on the technical level on January 3 (January 2) and on the substantive level on January 8. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for...
Page 173 - I will say that there was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was a rapid movement when negotiations resumed on the technical level on January 3 (January 2) and on the substantive level on January 8. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for himself. I want to make one point with respect to the question about understandings. It is obvious that when I speak with some confidence about certain developments that happen with respect to Laos and other places, that...
Page 84 - Some, as they passed, would explode— a few close enough to shake my aircraft. In fact, one exploded so close and caused such a loud noise and violent shock that I stated to the crew that I thought we had been hit.
Page 136 - At bombs away, it looked like we were right in the middle of a fireworks factory that was in the process of blowing up. The radio was completely saturated with SAM calls and MIG warnings.
Page 185 - A visible trail of water droplets or ice crystals sometimes forming in the wake of an aircraft. con-ven-tion (kon ven'shan) n. A formal assembly or meeting: a teachers
Page 5 - The seemingly interminable lines of B-52s moving relentlessly into takeoff position recalled old photographs of a similar nature, showing desert-pink B-24s shimmering and dancing in the Libyan heat, or dull gray B-17s in the gloom of an English morning.
Page 186 - Electronic countermeasures, any of various measures using electronic and reflecting devices to reduce the military effectiveness of enemy equipment or tactics employing or affected by electro-magnetic radiations Frequently used nickname for LINEBACKER II Electronic intelligence Electronic Warfare Officer; responsible for identification, assessment, and defense against the whole spectrum of threats to a penetrating bomber "Phantom II...
Page 171 - In the space of 1 1 days, B-52 Stratofortresses flew 729 sorties against 34 targets in North Vietnam above the 20th Parallel.
Page 166 - One crew even went so far as to file an Inspector General complaint. Their argument was that they, being a less experienced crew, needed the mission for crew proficiency more than the older heads.