Originally Posted by
SASless
Wash,
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.
Or in other words the same bomb load as four Lancasters or twenty B17s