In December 1972, President Nixon launched Operation Linebacker II, the largest bombing campaign since WWII, intended to ...

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The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...

Georgia War Veterans Home shared powerful stories of service during a Veterans Day ceremony Monday, including an Air Force ...

A Problem Plane from Day One The B-52 was born in the shadow of World War II but entered a very different world. First f ...

The first European BTF deployment of the new financial year kicked off at Morón Air Base, Spain, on Nov. 8 with the arrival of three B-52 Stratofortress ...

Dropping bombs on North Vietnam from a B-52 during the Vietnam War required access to information from down on the ground up ...

William “Billy” Louis Dowell, now 83, served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960 to 1964, spending much of his time stationed at ...

Arkansans old enough to remember ducking and covering under school desks to practice for a Soviet thermonuclear attack face ...

In October 2025, the United States Air Force dispatched two B-1B Lancer bombers to South America, leading some to wonder why they're still being flown. After all, the B-1B is an old aircraft, having ...

Aviation historian David Mattsson will present the story of a seldom-remembered bit of Minnesota aviation history, the crash of a B-52 bomber on a farm in Inver Grove Heights, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.