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From: leem@devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Lee Mellinger)
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Subject: B-1B's in the Gulf and B-52's in Vietnam
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From: leem@devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Lee Mellinger)


fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
>Would this same logic not alos apply to the B-52 during the Viet Nam War?
>This did not, however, prevent B-52's from being used there...

This does not necessarily apply to the B-52's in Vietnam.   There were
then in the USAF inventory more than 700 B-52's.  For the first few
years, only -B and -D versions were sent to SE Asia.  These were the
oldest and least valuable of the B-52's in the strategic sense and in
addition, they were only about 100 of the existing 700 a/c fleet.
 
Lee F. Mellinger                 Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
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