It's November 1971. and American air raids against North Vietnam are suspended. But, the war is still far from being over.

Moore joined the ranks of legends in the B-52 community. Specifically, Moore became one of only two B-52 crewmembers in the entire Vietnam War who managed to shoot down an attacking MiG-21.

The B-52 was a "flying bomb," Wallingford said. It had 312,000 pounds of fuel and 70,000 pounds of bombs. "You get hit by a surface-to-air missile, and your odds aren't good," Wallingford said.

Retired U.S. Air Force Major Don Harten, known as a River Rat, shared his story of surviving a secret B-52 raid and over 300 ...

Retired Air Force Col. Robert Certain (left) spent 101 day in captivity after his B-52 bomber was shot down over Hanoi on Dec. 18, 1972. (Robert Certain, Wikipedia Commons.) ...

That language of terrorism and the cold war was used to create hysteria that easily justified sending U.S. advisors, and then troops, into Vietnam once the French had been defeated in 1954.

Operation Linebacker II saw more than 200 American B-52 bombers fly 730 sorties and drop over 20,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam over a period of 12 days in December 1972.

Tinker Air Force Base was receiving GAM-77 supersonic missiles, nicknamed Hound Dogs, that would need to be modified.

He was later deployed to Guam in the Vietnam War where he worked with the B-52—a long-range reconnaissance bomber. (Courtesy/Jeremy P. Amick) Advertisement ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago on April 30, ... A U.S. Air Force B-52 delivers a bomb load of more than 38,000 pounds in South Vietnam in March 1966 during the Vietnam War.