"... and how grateful we are that those airframes still exist! "
Bill Gunston got most things right but in "Jet Bombers" 1993:-
"The story of the B-52 is unique ........... To do as much Sopwith Camels would have had to remain operational to 1968. Now the bombers are fading away at last."
And 30 years on we only wish we had a few more; that would take the Camel analogy to 1999.................