Posted on 03/17/2019 12:22:01 PM PDT by Cecily
This is the incredible moment enormous American B-52 bombers land at a RAF base in the largest US bomber deployment to the UK since the Iraq war.
Amazing photos and video footage have captured the impressive US planes landing at RAF Fairford, in Gloucestershire, their new temporary base.
Their arrival on Thursday and Friday came ahead of a NATO exercise in Georgia, which will be a show of force against Vladimir Putin's neighbouring Russia - though it is unclear if the B-52s will be involved.
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OMG , I was 9 or 10. It was an Armed Forces Day. We were playing ball on a diamond in East River Park when the ground shook and the sound of roaring thunder erupted. We looked up and there were three B36s in V formation flying south, following the river. A truly awesome sight.
LOL, I was born in the South and grew up a military brat, but it wasn’t until I joined the USN at age 18 that I realized for some, the Civil War had never ended!
I don’t think the BUFFs are stationed at Offutt, Just Minot ND. and Barksdale La.
Were the “4 burning” JATO bottles?
It appears you are correct. Thanks.
Our mom was born in 1925. Her mom came to the US from Yugoslavia shortly before WW1 broe out. Hard to imagine.
Mom was raised for a few years on a farm in northern Wisconsin by Aunts and Uncles while her mom worked a menial job in Chicago. Mom has lived through the Depression, Pearl Harbor, September 11 and more. In fact she got married rather young and her husband shipped to Europe as crew member of a bomber; he was injured on his first mission and died in hospital in England about a week later.
Still she has much for which to be grateful. By comparison my life has been rather uneventful.
My paternal grandmother Ida at 12 years of age was “farmed out” to a farm down in Maryland, 1880s, where there had been slaves, who stayed there and now worked for wages, living in the slave quarters like always. Ida lived with the former slaves, who taught her to cook and bake, and taught her the Bible. She either knew or knew-of Harriet Tubman. Tubman’s original name was Araminta, nicknamed “Minty”, but changed it to Harriet. When Ida’s first granddaughter arrived, she had her daughter name her Araminta. Other than Tubman, I have never ever heard of another Araminta. I wish I’d learned this stuff while Ida was still living. I would so loved to have gleaned what she’d experienced.
I have no idea how Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers got through even one take of some of their scenes without laughing. They were pros!
“I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.”
Oh, puleeze. Much ado about nothing. The only people trolling Russia are the msm.
Were the “4 burning” JATO bottles?
Only a stupid-assed fool would allow Georgia to join NATO.
The US must not have any part in encouraging it.
Was that CWO4 Novasol?IIRC.
Weren’t B-52s the Wright brothers design. They are so ancient they’re no threat to Russia.
Nope, jet engines.6 recips and 4 suck and blows.
No doubt really good stuff.
Yup. And you can tell from the smoke trail that they are coal powered.
My Great-grandpa was born in 1868, was eight years old when Custer was killed, and lived long enough to see the B-52 come into service. I still remember him.
Cool.
My father served in the US 7th Cavalry in the mid-50’s as a teenager, 17-19, and in later years moved far away from us to coincidentally later be interred at Fort Custer, MI.
Not sure who that was but he was a Col.
“Four burning and six turning, eh?”
A real episode.
A B52 lost an engine and declared an emergency. A pilot (probably a fighter jock) did not identify himself but simply said, “The dreaded 7 engine approach.”
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