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WATCH: Modern-Day BUFF Ops Halfway Around the World and Back

Global Thunder Highlights Are One Way to Ease Those Lockdown Blues “Global Thunder is an annual command and control exercise that provides training opportunities for all of U.S. Strategic Command’s…

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WATCH: Ride Along On a BUFF Mission With This Inflight Video

B-52H Operations Today Must Look Similar to How They Looked When These BUFFs Were Born The modern Boeing B-52H Stratofortress is destined to serve for the foreseeable future as America’s…

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WATCH: Classic Film of VIII Bomber Command at War

“Target for Today” Details What It Took to Put a Bombing Mission on the Target The film Target For Today was shot during the preparation for, execution of, and post-mission…

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The B-52: Come Fly The Plane Your Grandfather Flew (And Your Son Might Fly Too)

The Boeing B-52: The Timeless One On 15 April 1952, Boeing test pilot “Tex” Johnson pulled back on the control yoke of the prototype YB-52 Stratofortress and she took to…

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The Spectacular Failure That Led To The Best Medium Bomber Of World War II

There Were Several Good Medium Bombers But The B-25 Was the Best On April 11th 1939 the North American NA-40B, NX14221, took off from Wright Field in Ohio to undertake…

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The Lady Be Good: Flight From the Desert to Oblivion

This B-24D Liberator’s Crew Never Stood a Chance Against the Endless Sahara. On 4 April 1943, the Consolidated B-24D Liberator “Lady Be Good” and her crew of nine men took…

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Actor Jimmy Stewart Talks Up B-58 Hustler, Scares Russians In This Rare Video

General Jimmy Earned His Mach 2 Club Tie in a Hustler On March 15th 1960, the first Convair B-58 Hustler became operational with Strategic Air Command (SAC). One of the…

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This B-29 Landed on a Frozen Lake in Greenland in 1947. They Almost Flew Her Out 47 Years Later

The Frozen-Solid Ballad of the Kee Bird On February 21st 1947 United States Army Air Force Boeing B-29-95-BW Superfortress, 45-21768, named the Kee Bird, ran out of fuel due to…

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Broken Arrow: The Nuclear Bomb That Was Lost And Never Found

The Tybee Bomb Has Resisted All Efforts to Locate It. So Far. On February 5, 1958 a United States Air Force Boeing B-47E Stratojet, 51-2349A, callsign Ivory 2 of the…