How many B-52's were lost to enemy action?

"...There were other losses on Arc Light missions, the most notorious
being the "circle-back" mid-air on the first missions.... "

My Air Force neighbor across the street was an ECM operator in the that
first wave of B-52s that were turned back into the following wave of B-52s.
Then another Air Force neighbor two doors down left for SVN and was dead
within a month of arriving. He was copilot in a C-123 carrying mortar rounds
when an engine failed on takeoff.

It was a grim time on a residential street in Rancho Cordova, California
then.

WDA

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"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:24:42 -0400, "Kevin Brooks"
wrote:


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Anyone know?

Ten were lost over North Vietnam; another fourteen were lost outside
North
Vietnamese territory, with seven of those counted as combat losses, and
sixteen others received "major damage" during raids against NV targets.
One
was lost during ODS over the Indian Ocean either enroute to or returning
from a strike against Iraq.

Brooks

Actually, fifteen B-52s were lost over NVN during LB II. Another eight
crashed on recovery or in Thailand, Laos or the Gulf of Tonkin.

These were the only "losses to enemy action during the entire SEA war.
There were other losses on Arc Light missions, the most notorious
being the "circle-back" mid-air on the first missions.

A list of the Linebacker II losses can be found at
http://www.teleproductiongroup.com/1...ay-by-day.html

Don Harten mentioned by another poster shows up at River Rats reunions
most every year. Will probably see him in two weeks at Nashville.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8