B-52 At Utapao Air Base Thailand During The Vietnam War

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This video is divided into three parts. Part one is narrated and follows a B-52 crew based at Utapao Air Base in Thailand. There are interviews with the crew and they are shown in an operational debriefing. Also seen is MACV at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, where B-52 targets are selected.

Part two is not narrated (captions) and covers crew boardings, B-52D departures and returns, reception for 100 mission pilot, bomb handling and loading activities, duties of ground crew in preparation for aircraft departure, and gathering of drag chutes at end of runway. Unit is the 307th Strategic Wing.

Part three is a short narrated segment focusing on Operation Linebacker II, launching of B-52s against Hanoi, N. Vietnam in an attempt to break the deadlock at Paris peace talks.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• B-52
• Stratofortress
• Utapao
• Air
• Base
• Thailand
• Force
• Vietnam
• War

[militaryvideocom]

It is actual film footage of Linebacker II taken by combat camera.

[conagher1880]

BUFF rocks...I love that old bird!

[NFAtoys]

@dondean55 - Bleeding heart morons like yourself are so totally devoid of any knowledge of history. The reason for the U.S. involvement in Vietnam was noble; to stop the spread of Communism. The best proof of that is what happened after we left. Communists like the Khmer Rouge moved in and slaughtered millions of innocent Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian people. This was face-to-face genocide. Not collateral causalities from air bombing at 30,000 feet. You ignorant dip shit.

[60vanbaker]

Great Vid I arrived at UT May 1968 went pcs to ubon Jan 69. Thailand is a wonderful counrty. I went back in 2005 got to visit my old duty station the POL tank farm.

[zmanzoran]

dondean55, as much as i agree with your overall statement, i do think it's important that you have the fact correct....the Khmer Rouge was not in vietnam, but cambodia

[arpbfm1]

I was at that base in 1970 when a typhoon was threatening Guam. We stayed for almost a week.

[OOOCHIMENN]

@NFAtoys Yeahh hey the us govt did the same thing to the indians slaughtered like what 99 percent of them? took all their lands, fucked em over completely, and then we decide to go get ourselves colonies all over the carribean, the americas, and the pacific where we also killed a shit load of people face to face! its the same shit asshole except one was for communism and the other for capitalism which as we can see today is a system thats gunna keep the lower classes at their feet

[JetMechMA]

@tangmo947 You gotta be kidding me. Civilian air traffic is a THOUSAND times more active than military traffic. I've served in both worlds.

[Uncle5cary]

10 years of terrorizing pre-industrial farmers. Yah, great fun f-king war lovers.

[univibe23]

6 yrs on B-52 G's. Loved most of it. Long tiring missions and sitting on the alert pad for 7 days once a month. What am I crazy? Yea.

[evildeathmonkey1]

@howdyk1 Do you think China and the soviet union would have sat back a let you nuke Hanoi? Nuking Hanoi would have triggered a third world war. Can you say ''indoctrinated hillbilly''??????

[tangmo947]

@4y6857b....Thank you for that piece of history that is so often overlooked..

I was a 20 yr old control tower operator w/ the 1985th Comm Sq in 68..My 1st base was Griffiss AFB in Rome,NY, and I cut my teeth on BUFFs& KC135s.The BUFF is one of the most awesome aircraft to work with,and they still command attention to this day...Joined the FAA upon discharge,and that was such a drag compared to the USAF air traffic I worked and the USAF controllers I worked with.

[tangmo947]

@4y6857b....Thank you for that piece of history that is so often overlooked..

I was a 20 yr old control tower operator w/ the 1985th Comm Sq in 68..My 1st base was Griffiss AFB in Rome,NY, and I cut my teeth on BUFFs& KC135s.The BUFF is one of the most awesome aircraft to work with,and they still command attention to this day.