B-52 BOMBER OPERATION ARC LIGHT 1965 GUAM TO VIETNAM BOMBING MISSIONS (SILENT) 21794 

I was crew chief kc135 at utapo. 1967. 1967 watched many b52 take off andland many with hung bómbs

B-52 missions were also flown from Kadena AB Okinawa. I was TDY there for 179 days in 1970 working SAC Support in the 400th MMS(T). I was Crew Chief of the Ford 1 Load Crew which loaded 21 750lb General Purpose Bombs on 40 foot flatbed trailers that had rails down the center of the trailer with the nose of the bombs loaded to the drivers side. Ford 2 Load Crew loaded with the nose to the passenger side and the Mustang Load Crew loaded 24 Mk82 500 lb bombs.

I extend props to the band here. They keep that same tune sounding fresh right through to the end.

Thanks for this 👍✈️

I was lucky enough to watch 3 B 52s fly over Rochford during the first Gulf War it was a amazing site my Dad could not believe it .

Awesome tunes, brother!

Man... IF ONLY a couple of these, with a full 'Load-out', could have 'worked over' that "40-mile Red Convoy" in N.W. Ukraine!?! Reds would be DONE!!!

It was mid 1968, we were making our way back to LZ Birmingham, a fire support base with about five or six 105mm artillery batteries stuck out on top of this hill, along side Highway 547, a dirt road that led up the center of the Au Shau valley. We, 3/5th Cav, originally based out of Bear Cat down in the Delta, we were put on an LST to Danang, where we transferred to several LSU;s to get in the shallow harbor at Phu Bai and after TET68 subsided down south, we were shipped north to be Op Con to any one of a bunch of other units in the Hue area as Tet68 was still raging up here. Can't have us down south lounging about getting a sun tan. Up here we worked for 1st and 3rd Marine, 101 Airborne, 1st Air Cav, and some Vietnamese units. Seldom did a day pass that we did not get shot at. Anybody that needed some Armor for a few days for one of their missions, essentially we were Rent a Tank or I guess more accurately Rent a Calvary. Seldom did we ever go anywhere by ourselves but today we had to make a run into "town", meaning Camp Evens. It was getting late to be out here by ourselves, and we had just crossed the pontoon bridge across the Perfume River and nearby there was a CB base camp (they built and maintained the pontoon bridge) where we pulled in for the night and some hot food. On other occasions we have made pit stops at a few other CB base camps as well as Marine Base camps, hot food is always a good idea when you can get it. Nice to chat up with some other people. In our line of work while on dismount missions we will find weapons caches and we are supposed to turn all that stuff in just like good little soldiers but we also know that there are people that like souvenirs and it is our job to supply them since we have so much of that crap. After dinner we do some bargaining and I had some old Chinese SKS rifles that I did not turn in so I traded the CBs for a brand new GMC 6-71 supercharger, still in the box. It was a spare replacement for one of their graders that had Detroit Diesel in it. ... they were never going to need it,they hoped. I got rid of some old SKS rifles from my inventory of trading goods. I hatched a plan of how to get this home to put on my race car. This was 1968 and this was as good a supercharger as any that was on race cars at the moment back home... and I had one now, a brand new one still in the box. Only two obstacles, get me home and get the supercharger home. A challenge for a different day. The new 6-71 supercharger was still sealed in the silver bag inside the red white and blue Detroit Diesel box and I tucked it away up in the front of the ACAV sitting on top of the stacks and stacks of ammo both 50cal and 7.62 M60 ammo that filled the bottom of the ACAV. We had so much weight in her that the torsion bar suspension was just about out of travel. Our TO&E is 10,000 rounds for every gun we have on board. The enemy plan is to over run us when we run out of ammo. That is a very big job that they had tried on many occasions, and never with success i might add. Although I will admit there were a couple of times...... Sorry for the acronyms .. ACAV is Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicle, basically a highly modified M113. After dinner we set our our watch schedule and I drew mid watch, the worst one, where you get two hours of sleep, get up for two hours of watch, then get to sleep two more hours before we had to get on the move again. With a full belly and a new supercharger to sleep next to I laid down at about 11pm hoping to get a bit of extra sleep before I had to get up at 2am. I was awakened for my watch and the night as black as the inside of a cow, there was no moon tonight. . No one else was awake on our ACAV but even if we are inside a CB Base camp we always kept one man away at all times. It was about two thirty in the morning, it began with the ground starting to tremor, something you felt more than I heard it. Yes it was a WTF moment. I am not new in country, I am a seasoned soldier, I have seen a lot of shit... but WTF is this? A few seconds later as the horizon began to light up It took a moment before I realized that what I first thought was a sun rise it was happening in the north not the east. Unless dogs and cats are now sleeping together, this does not happen, it was then I realized what I was witnessing was a Arc Light B52 event in the Au Shau valley. With dozens of B52s each dropping 70,000 pounds of bombs it is a spectacle few have ever seen, and those that do see often do no survive it. The crescendo of the ground vibrating increased as the light got brighter and brighter holding that for a few minutes (I did not look at my watch) then both the light and the ground shaking subsided and the impenetrable dark of the night fell back over me. It was like it never happened, I has no one to share this with, everybody else spelt through it. I never saw it before and never saw it again and speaking to others in country not many did get to see it. Awesome does not even come close to the description. It was the night I saw the sun rise in the north..... if you are unaware of the B52 Arc LIght events google can be your friend. Now the story about the new supercharger... well that is a different story. I will write it up if you let me know you are interested.

Nice to see the 7th Bomb Wing. Judging from the white belly paint I’m guessing this was in late 1965. I was there with that wing and supported many of those crews.

Great footage. It would be great to see the B/N periscope footage of the bomb impacts.

Where is the audio?

Cách dây trên dưới 60 nam mà quân dội Mỹ thực hiện những phi vụ tác chiến quá tiền tiến bậc nhất thể giới

Thanks for posting. More please? And why is the image flipped?

Nice footage, but video is flipped horizontally.

decades later after another failure in Afgansitan we have the Isreali defence force using essentially the same tactic against the heavily fortified tunnels in Gaza.

I was attached to the 4133rd provisional bomb wing in Guam from the 22nd bomb wing SAC March AFB for alot of the Arclight action in the late 60’s and remember B52’s attempting takeoffs as the video shows. Am not sure this is Anderson AFB, it may be prior to all the blast reventments being built. As I recall we had about 50 of the Arclight birds when I was there and boo koo action. We also had Utapao AFB in Thailand that were flying missions as well. It wasn’t uncommon to see 10 or more plane missions taking off at short intervals. Silent death from above.

TDY from the 97th may thru September

What a machine!!!.

used to see them come in and be waved off from fatigue for a go around - my photos stolen in 1966

SOUND !!! NO SOUND !!!

Now the chem dumps are over CONUS

4 or5 of these fully loaded flying over Russia trench lines would give the Ukrainians all they need to put and end to Putins war!!!!

no sound

Đây là B-52F

B-52F not D Stratofortresses

Good Videos. But the worst soundtrack ever conceived for a war video. No match whatever with what we are viewing.

Flipped image XD

War criminal nation.