Dropping bombs on North Vietnam from a B-52 during the Vietnam War required access to information from down on the ground up to celestial heights, Air Force veteran Jim Colligan recalls. Colligan ...

U.S. Air Force veteran Jim Colligan flew about 80 missions as a navigator and a bombardier on a B-52 during his time in Vietnam. Here, he poses for a photo in front of the Veterans Memorial Museum of ...

The B-52 crews were able to claim the bragging rights of a 2:0 kill ratio against their nimbler aerial adversaries. “The first shootdown came on Dec. 18, 1972, after Turner’s B-52D took off from ...

The legendary B-52 Stratofortress, behemoth of the sky built to fight the unthinkable war, nearly a century later the fleet ...