Wash,
No disrespect meant....but after months of reading about the "great contribution" the Vulcan provided during the Falklands....I felt a bit of "perspective" would be useful.
As to Vietnam, imagine if we had done the B-52 thing from Day 1....and not pissed about with LBJ's message sending. If one thinks about it....we bombed our allies and never invaded the north...which seems an ass backwards way of fighting a war.
Pontius,
Having seen some B-52 strikes from way too close....they are in all correct usage of the word simply "awesome". To imagine 80+ of the things raining down bombs on the same target simply begs the imagination. In those days, they could carry up to 80,000 pounds of bombs each.