Once again a captured North Vietnamese officer admitted that 75 percent of his regiment had been wiped in just one B-52 attack. These attacks helped break the siege on Khe Sanh and forced the North Vietnamese to withdraw.
#Biff slang code#
During this operation, code named Niagara, B-52s dropped 75,631 tons of bombs in 2,707 sorties, and nearly six hundreds of these were a mere 300 yards from the American perimeter, but no Americans were hit. The BUFFs operated around the clock, arriving over the target in groups of up to six every few hours, guided by Skyspot system (the AN/MSQ-77 Ground Directed Bombing system that equipped the ground radar stations located throughout the country) which was capable of revising their targets with two hours notice. In the same year took place the most famous among the Arc Light missions, when the B-52s were used to support and defend American forces during Khe Sanh siege, a battle that developed into the largest and most significant tactical air campaign yet seen in southeast Asia. However the Arc Light missions reached their peak in 1968 when 20,568 sorties were flown. One lost control of bodily functions as the mind screamed incomprehensible orders to get out.” A claim confirmed by General Westmoreland who told that “We know from talking to many prisoners and defectors, that enemy troops fear B-52s, tactical air, artillery, and armor.in that order.” This impression was confirmed by the Minister of Justice for the Viet Cong, Truong Nhu Tang, who dramatically explained in his 1985 book A Viet Cong Memoir, the experience of being caught in the middle of a B-52 Arc Light mission “It Seemed, as I strained to press myself into the bunker floor, that I had been caught in the Apocalypse the terror was complete. These modifications enhanced the effectiveness of Arc Light missions: flying too high to be seen or heard, according to the official history of the SAC, B-52s became one of the weapons most feared by the Viet Cong. Noteworthy it was during Operation Arc Light that the Stratofortress gained its famous nickname, becoming the “BUFF” an acronym for “ Big Ugly Fat F*cker”, that in polite company and in official USAF fact sheets it is deciphered as “Big Ugly Fat Fellow”.
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The distinctive characteristic of the B-52D was the newly standardized Southeast Asia camouflage scheme, consisting of tan plus two shades of green on its upper sides, while the undersides and the vertical tail were painted with the same B-52F gloss-black. This modification program, nicknamed “Big Belly” brought the bomb-carrying capacity of the B-52D to up to 60,000 pounds, a huge augment compared with the 43,500 carried by the B-52F, which was replaced by the D in first months of 1966. Less.In December 1965, to augment the B-52 bomb load, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52Ds were modified to carry eighty four 500 pound conventional bombs, with provisions for another twenty four on underwing pylons. Geez Biff is carrying on isn't he? So little credibility as Treasurer he's got to dial the bully boy stuff to 11. It feels so right on that it makes me feel much despair:Trump is a lot like "Stepdad Biff" from Back to the Future 2 "I could do better but I just learned it"
#backtothefuture 's Tom Wilson can't just make like a tree and leave Biff Tannen behind:įist bump emoji here.RT biff would say We have to find a way to go back to the year 2016 that wasn't messed up by Biff Tannen getting a sports almanach from the future in 1958Īnd Biff could be elected president next week! He's evil Biff Tannen from alternate 1985 ala Back to the Future II. So turns out Biff Diddle is a parody account - but Creeping Shariucinno is a real fear for this Breitbart editor: "George P Bush declared support for man who viciously bullied his father, which is like Marty McFly voting for Biff Tannen"
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