Capable of carrying a payload of 70,000 pounds, the B52 or the BUFFÂ (Big Ugly Fat Fucker) brought unrelenting terror from 40,000 ft. Though it never turned the tide of any war, the B52 has always managed to create a certain level of destruction and psychological toll on the enemy.
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"All of a sudden there was a terrible noise, trees falling everywhere, huge explosions in the sky. You were petrified. A rain of arms and legs fell before me on the grass..I felt as though I had been caught in the apocalypse.
The terror was complete. One lost control of bodily functions as the mind screamed incomprehensible orders to get out.
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The train of death rumbling through the sky above, that dreadful drone of the American B-52s and the horrible few seconds that followed each time as bombs whistled down...you do not forget those sounds, ever." - NVA soldier describes surviving a bombing run over the Trail during the Vietnam War.
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