The Boeing B-52 bomber has flown in every post-World War II conflict that the United States has fought. It was an especially useful asset during the Vietnam War, when the United States dropped ...

The B-52 may be nearly eighty years old ... The original B-52A iteration was conceptualized following lessons learned in World War II. In the mid-1940s, the former Air Material Command recognized ...

One of the most widely known accidents that occurred during the Cold war was in 1966, where a B-52 bomber returning to North Carolina, Spain collided mid-air with a KC-135 tanker during a ...

The exclave, ceded from Germany to the Soviet Union post-WWII, also has a contentious history due to the Soviet-ordered Katyn massacre. A pair of United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress ...