Whiteman was primarily a Minuteman 3 base at the time. Different mission at Whiteman now. B-2s.
What a great aircraft, the B-52. When working a security post on an adjacent taxiway, I would often have to challenge alert flight crew members who would jog on the taxiway at night. For some reason, we often failed to be notified of their jogging on our post.
But when the crew members were checked-out, we heard some great stories of missions. Most of those flyers had flown missions over SE Asia (Viet Nam, and those places where we had no missions . . . officially). Many of those B-52s were seriously patched up.
A Thai friend of mine was working at U-Tapao as a bank teller in the 60s when a piece of a ‘52 came through the roof of the house she shared with some other women who worked there.
A nice officer of the USAF came knocking on her door, informed her he was going to fix the damage at US government expense, and asked for the piece of his plane back.
A Thai friend of mine was working at U-Tapao as a bank teller in the 60s when a piece of a ‘52 came through the roof of the house she shared with some other women who worked there.
A nice officer of the USAF came knocking on her door, informed her he was going to fix the damage at US government expense, and asked for the piece of his plane back.