Flying from the Black Hole: the B-52 navigator-bombardiers of Vietnam

  • OCLC #: 262434714
  • ISBN #:
    • 9781591143598
    • 1591143594
  • Call #: DS558.8.H384 2009
  • Physical Location: Pritzker Military Museum & Library — Main Shelves — DS558.8 .H384 2009
  • Publisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©2009.
  • Physical Description: x, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Contents:
    • Prologue: The poor players
    • Operation Linebacker Two : the first day
    • A booming sound
    • The big ugly feller
    • LeMay
    • Early navigators and bomb aimers
    • Training the Cold War Magellan
    • Stratofortress bombardier training
    • Welcome to the big leagues
    • Getting SAC-emcised
    • Turning on the Arc Light
    • First combat mission
    • The Southeast Asian war games
    • Back to SAC
    • Won't somebody please turn out the Arc Light?
    • December 18/19, 1972 : Linebacker Two's first day
    • The third day
    • Getting smart, and finishing them off
    • The twenty-first century Buf/BUFF.