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Section 25: Chit Chat Subject: Nuclear Rockets Msg# 1230059
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Great memories, interesting stories.
Thanks for your service, and for the sacrifices of your friends. R-I-P
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I'm afraid the weapons I carried back in the bomb bay of my B52 were pikers. Merely 1.1 megatons. Of course we carried 4 to 6 at a time to magnify the result should, god forbid, we ever had to drop them. As I was in the bay checking the settings before our airborne alert missions, I'd pat them on the nose and say, "You be nice and quiet, you hear." Each was about a foot in diameter and about 13 feet long aluminum tubes. Very impressive looking. You can see pictures of them in Googling "Palomares Lost Bombs" as they fished out the last of the four from the Med after the bomber/tanker mid air in the '60's. Our unit was scheduled to take over that Airborne Alert Route the following month but that mission was cancelled permanently. The Northern mission over Greenland remained which was a bear. Navigation was extremely exacting since compass and radar were basically useless. We lost another 52 on that route in the '70's from a fire on board. It was from my old unit and I knew everyone. I lost a friend in that one, the copilot. Word is that they never recovered the fourth bomb that sank in a area that defrosted from burning fuel of the aircraft and then refroze. |
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