Someone tell me what aircraft this is.

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[CodeJockey]

Lost my Mom this past week and as is probably a right of passage Dad has passed on a ton of family photographs to me. He had a small album of pictures from when he was in the 352nd fighter squadron in Vietnam around 1967.

Not sure the protocol for posting actual active duty military pictures, but almost 50 years have passed now.

This was one aircraft that was in his album. There were several F-100'S. That was what he wrenched on at the time.

He never spoke of being over there, and I never asked many questions.

[knarf]

LOVELY music to go along with a nice clip ... thanx

still tiltin' in my chair .... /8^)

[tanknetter]

Interesting B-57 story. Early in the Vietnam War Walter Cronkite got to go fly an actual combat mission with a B-57.

Uncle Walt pretty much p*ssed himself giddy over the experience. Unfortunately, the videos out there of the segment cut the last 30 seconds or so of Cronkite's behavior. Go figure, any video of the Liberal Media Icon reacting gleefully over getting to drop real bombs on little yellow people with slanty eyes and wearing black pajamas MUST be purged 1984-style, right? (/sarc)

Thing is, the actual full (or just remainder of) transcript IS out there several places, even if CBS has been able to suppress the unedited video:

WALTER CRONKITE: B-57s — the British call them Canberra jets — we’re using them very effectively here in this war in Vietnam to dive-bomb the Vietcong in these jungles beyond Da Nang here. Colonel, what’s our mission we’re about to embark on?

AIR FORCE COLONEL: Well, our mission today, sir, is to report down to the site of the ambush seventy miles south of here and attempt to kill the VC.

WALTER CRONKITE: The colonel has just advised me that that is our target area right over there. One, two, three, four, we dropped our bomb, but now a tremendous G-load as we pull out of that dive. Oh, I know something of what those astronauts must go through. Well, colonel.

AIR FORCE COLONEL: Yes, sir.

WALTER CRONKITE: It’s a great way to go to war.

[puppypusher]

“B-57 Canberra”

Exactly.

[The_Victor]

NASA/JSC has a pair of the weather research version, WB-57 flying out of Ellington Field.

[Darksheare]

Engines were started via black powder charge.
If engines flamed out or shutdown inflight, they could not be restarted in flight.

[tanknetter]

NASA/JSC has a pair of the weather research version, WB-57 flying out of Ellington Field.

But they aren't really being used for all that much "weather research" ... ;-)

And they're getting a third that's been pulled out of desert storage after 40+ years.

[Tainan]

Hey CJ...my sincere condolences on the passing of your Mother.

Good to see your Father sharing these with you.
Family heritage memory stuff.
A lot of folks who've been there don't talk about it much.

[alfa6]

I doubt that this book is still in print but if you can find a copy, “The Doom PussyWritten be female correspondent who cover one of the B-57 squadrons flying night strikes in Vietnam.

Hmnm looks like Amazon has some available...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Doom-Pussy-Elaine-Shepard/dp/0962838810

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[CodeJockey]

I will ask him the location. To this day he still may not tell me. This was the first I have seen of these photos. This is my dad in the middle. Tsgt French.

Note the 'Enter on official business only' sign on the door'

[ConradofMontferrat]

After.

Its been 40 effin years. But when I was at Cam Rahn, (truth, ony 5 days.) I think I remember they used the quanset hut style revetments like we did at DaNang and Bien Hao.

I’ve only seen these open, (no roof) style in pictures from SA and Rhoadesia.

Probably I’m wrong. Been too many years.

I still have slide pics from Cam Rahn, and from time to time I pull them out, put batteries in my slide viewer, and look at them.

I just don’t remember open revetments like that. But then again, I’ve been wrong a number of times.

[quimby]

As others have stated, your photo is a B57b. They have an interesting bomb-bay door that swings like a pendulum. They can also carry ordinance on wing pods.

The photo at post 14 is a B57 a or d model, frequently called “long wing” models with the bubble canopy.

They were used for bombing and recon. Also there was a ECM jammer/recon variant.

[Straight Vermonter]

The VT-ANG were the last in the US to fly the Canberra. There is still one at the guard museum here.

[Figment]

“Two of the Martin B-57 variant remain in service, performing meteorological work for NASA”

Thanks for that info. I saw one of these several years ago at Ellington field in Houston. I thought I was just seeing wrong

[vetvetdoug]

B-57. My Father's best friend was killed servicing the B-57 at Bien Hoa AB, RVN in May of 1965 when the VC set off mortars and exploded the B-57s readying for takeoff. They then proceeded to destroy the planes lined up wing tip to wing tip on the flight line. After that the planes were parked as you see with barriers between the planes.

The flight crews that serviced the B-57s were rotated from Yokota AFB with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance and the 6091st Squadrons as the B-57s were the staples of the weather and reconnaissance (Tail numbers of three of them were 446,447,448). The RB-57E models had extended wings and overflew Russia and China testing the air after nuclear detonations from 1960-1962. The RB-57s flew so high the SAMs could not reach them. They took the place of the U-2s for a period of time.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

They also had a big wing version for spying before the U2.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Rhodesians had their own flying group dedicated to the Vulcan bomber. A Vulcan on a visit to SAC at Omaha flew up to a weekend airshow at the Air Guard’s section of the Des Moines airport.
They handed out teeshirts that said, “Fly 44th,” which was their unit in Rhodesia. All were cool guys.
The pilot overshot the short Des Moines cross wind runway and had to go around. The exhaust from the four inboard engines was like coal smoke on his way around.
Wife and I and our 6 year old kid walked over and met the crew...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Nope, but the Brits loved putting the engines inside the wings.

[tanknetter]

Nope, but the Brits loved putting the engines inside the wings.

Meteor, Canberra, Valiant, Victor, Vulcan, Nimrod. Any others that I missed? I'm not sure I'd count the Buccaneer - engines were mounted between the fuselage and the wings.

[anoldafvet]

Exactly right. I was at Bien Hoa when it happrnrd.

[ConradofMontferrat]

They indeed did do wonders with what little they had.

Big Brass Balls.

250,000 against 8 MILLION!

But hey, like Alvin York, the Rhodesians, (BSAP) had them all SURROUNDED!

Rhodesia once was the bread basket of all Africa. They fed MILLIONS.

Today, the country is a wasteland.

Once you go “black” you can never go back.