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 ...

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

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.

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.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, ... of wartime propaganda (it begins with the intro: “honoring the heroes of Hanoi who defeated the ...