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The B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi or Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52 is located at 157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi. The museum comprises one main building with displays on the history of the Vietnamese revolution, the First Indochina War, the Vietnam War, Operations Rolling Thunder, Linebacker and Linebacker II and the air defense of ...
Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from December 18 to December 29, 1972, during the Vietnam War. More than 20,000 tons of ordnance was dropped on military and industrial areas in Hanoi and Haiphong and at ...
Neil Sheehan, war correspondent, writing before the mass attacks on heavily populated cities including North Vietnam's capital. On 22 November 1972, a B-52D (55-110) from U-Tapao was hit by a SAM while on a raid over Vinh. The crew was forced to abandon the damaged aircraft over Thailand. This was the first B-52 destroyed by hostile fire. The zenith of B-52 attacks in Vietnam was Operation ...
Thanh Hằng. Thanh Hằng, real name Phạm Thị Thanh Hằng (born 22 July 1983 [1]) is a Vietnamese actress, supermodel and beauty pageant titleholder. She was the most successful Vietnamese model from 2012 to 2019, thus being usually called The First Vedette of the Vietnamese model industry in the 2010s, preceded by Anh Thư.
Feb 5 – 17. Operation Tran Hung Dao I [1][10] ARVN 1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th and 11th Airborne Brigades, VNMC 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th Brigades, 30th, 33rd, 35th, 38th & 41st Ranger Battalions, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment and 199th Infantry Brigade operation to defend the Saigon area during the Tet Offensive.
The only active operational model of the B-52 is the B-52H. It is currently stationed at three USAF bases, flown by four wings: [1] 2nd Bomb Wing (AFGSC) – Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. 11th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: LA, Gold Tail Stripe) 20th Bomb Squadron (B-52H, Tail Code: LA, Blue Tail Stripe)
The MiG-21 was also destroyed by the explosion. It is claimed that Vu Xuan Thieu deliberately rammed the B-52. The bodies of the two dead B-52 crew members were not immediately recovered. The Vietnamese government returned the remains of Bennie Lamar Fryer, the navigator, in 1977 and those of Allen Louis Johnson in 1985.
Website. vaa.edu.vn. Vietnam Aviation Academy (abbreviated VAA, Vietnamese: Học Viện Hàng Không Việt Nam) is a Vietnamese university specializing in aviation -related courses. The university is operated by the Ministry of Transport . The academy has two campuses in Ho Chi Minh City, located in Tân Bình District and Phú Nhuận District.