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To: Salman

That’s okay, Ferdinand. They’ll just backstop out of GUAM for the heavies with weapons and then fly the tankers out of Kadena, Okinawa..... That’s what they did during Viet Nam.

I was at Kadena in 1971 right when they’d just pulled out a wing of B-52s used for bombing Viet Nam. The locals didn’t like all the bombs so they swapped the bombers for fully fuel-laden KC135s and ran the B-52s out of Guam (Operation Arc Light). They also used CCK Air Base in Taiwan


7 posted on 05/01/2023 10:28:11 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

And Linebacker II in 1972 primarily sortied from Anderson AFB on Guam and U-Tapao AB in Thailand.


22 posted on 05/01/2023 11:20:13 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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