[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.

[anoldafvet]

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