Actually, fifteen B-52s were lost over NVN during LB II. Another eight
crashed on recovery or in Thailand, Laos or the Gulf of Tonkin.

Robert Dorr has an excellent book with an appendix that lists every B-52 lost
over the entire life of the aircraft. Dorr lists 31 B-52s lost in Southeast
Asia. There were 12 non-combat related losses from JUN 65 till the first combat
loss on 22 NOV 72. These non-combat losses included; 4 mid-air collisions, 1
failed non-combat related Emergency Landing in Da Nang, 5 takeoff mishaps
including one wing structural failure (yikes!), 1 lightning strike and a ground
fire at Kadena. Following the first combat loss in NOV 72, 15 more followed
during Linebacker II, however they weren't the final losses or even combat
losses. On 4 JAN 73, a D model crashed in the South China Sea after being
struck by an SA-2 near Vihn, NV. The final combat loss was a D model that made
an emergency landing at Da Nang on 13 JAN 73, he had sustained battle damage. A
CANN bird D model that had a non-combat related crash landing at Utapo in OCT
72 was finally scrapped in FEB 73, ending the losses for B-52s in SE Asia.


BUFDRVR

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