Subject: B-52 attrition rates?
From: funkraum spam
Date: 8/11/2004 5:45 AM Pacific Standard Time
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(ArtKramr) wrote:
Pugs

[...]
Which war? Vietnam, Desert Storm, Balkans, Serbia, Afghanistan or
Iraq? It's been in all of them but only suffered losses due to enemy
action in Vietnam.

Pugs


Viet Nam please. Isn't it amazing that there were no other losses in all
those
other wars?


I remember some comments by an East German intelligence operative
visiting Cuba in the 70s, who was shown the battleground of the Bay of
Pigs: He mentioned how he was shown some 'B-52 wreckage' as part of
the tour.

I had never heard of B-52s being used in the Bay of Pigs, nor any
combat losses over Cuba.

My guesses we

a) A theatre set building company in Havana had run-up some "B-52
wreckage" . Che & The Beard's advance across Cuba contained high
levels of amateur theatrics (machine guns being fired in the
background during hammed-up radio broadcasts etc), so this would fit.

b) The NVA had gone into the "B-52 wreckage" export business

c) All former scenes of battle with the Imperialist Pig-Dogs contain
"B-52 wreckage" by definition, visitors being required to nod
appreciatively.


I think an A-26 Invader was lost. But am not sure.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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