B-52 Stratofortress Units in Combat 195573 by Jon Lake

B-52 Stratofortress Units in Combat 195573 by Jon Lake

Designed to form the backbone of Strategic Air Command's nuclear deterrent, the B-52 force was brought to higher states of readiness whenever crisis threatened the USA, most notably when Kennedy and Khruschev went eyeball-to-eyeball over Cuba. Soon afterwards, B-52s formed the backbone of the USAF's bombing campaign in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. This book follows the story of the B-52 from its genesis to its first combat missions in June 1965 and through to the briefly sustained but bloodily fought Linebacker I offensive in late 1972. Even after the withdrawal of US forces in 1973, B-52s remained in-theatre, flying training missions mainly from Guam.

Jon Lake is the author of Combat Aircraft 35: ‘Lancaster Squadrons 1939-45’. He is one of Britain’s leading journalists and historians, and secretary of the Freelance Aviation Journalists Association.

Mark Styling is better known to readers of Osprey Publishing's Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series as the profile artist for such books as Hellcat Aces of World War 2, Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937–45 and P–61 Units of World War 2. A full-time commercial artist, Mark works from his home in the East London suburb of Hackney.

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ISBN 13	9781841766072
ISBN 10	1841766070
Title	B-52 Stratofortress Units in Combat 195573
Author	Jon Lake
Series	Combat Aircraft
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2004-01-16
Number of pages	96
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