"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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It does seem highly unlikely that there were 29 wings of G/Hs.

I've got a great book by Bob Dorr that actually lays out the disposition
of the
BUFF fleet by various years. In 1970 there were 10 B-52G Wings (2nd, 97th,
42nd, 416th, 380th, 19th, 68th, 72nd, 320th & 456th) and 6 B-52H wings
(379th,
410th, 449th, 17th, 319th & 5th). The rest of the forces were; 9.5 B-52D
Wings
and half of an F Wing (seems one squadron at Castle still had B-52Fs in
1970).

As you can see from the numbers above, at least by 1970, there wasn't even
29
BUFF wings total.

The next earlier year looked at by Dorr is 1963. There are 2 x B-52B
wings, 1 x
B-52C wing, 9 x B-52D wings, 5 x B-52E wings, 4 x B-52F wings, 10 x B-52G
wings, 6 x B-52H wings and 1 wing (Castle) with a squadron each of B-52Bs
and
B-52Fs.

Thats 38 total wings. Obviously this predates even my birth, but I did not
think Hound Dog was that prevalent. If 29 of 38 wings had Hound Dog I
would be
very surprised because I've met only 1 ol' BUFF crew dog (nice guy I met
at the
Battle Creek Air Show) who had any Hound Dog experience.

I believe a typo may be involved here--note that the fist quote indicated 29
*squadrons* were to receive the Hound Dog, and the second quote indicates
that as of 1963 29 *wings* had them. Two possibilities--a typo replaced
"squadrons" with wings in the second quote, or (perhaps more likely), only
one squadron per wing was tasked with Hound Dog delivery.

Brooks



BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it
harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"