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To: cuban leaf

I spent a year there 60-61 SAC base.


40 posted on 03/26/2021 6:02:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

We used to drive by Larsen AFB and you could not see the B-52’s, but you could see their tails. It was fascinating.

When I was a kid in the early 60’s, the B52’s were silver with white bottoms. By the mid-60’s they were green camo on top and black bottoms. They came in right over our house. To this day I am seriously impressed by those things.

BTW, FWIW, occasionally a B-36 would fly over at very high altitude. They literally looked like little silver crosses in the sky.

Oh, and I heard no small number of sonic booms back in those days. Interesting times. :)


44 posted on 03/26/2021 6:12:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Elsie

I was in first grade, watching the B-52’s land just over my house. :)


48 posted on 03/26/2021 6:15:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Elsie

My father actually worked at the base. You may have known him. He worked on the analogue tail gun computers on the B-52’s.


49 posted on 03/26/2021 6:16:46 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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