B52 Victory Museum
War museum displaying downed B-fifty-two bomber wreckage and air defense weapons from a nineteen seventy-two bombing campaign.
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This guide to the B52 Victory Museum in Hanoi centers on the night of December 27, 1972, deep into Operation Linebacker II, when Vietnamese gunners fired volley after volley of missiles at American B-fifty-two bombers over the city. You'll hear from Doan Thi Hien, a girl at the time, who remembers crawling out of a bunker to find a downed bomber still burning near her neighborhood, and how many bombs were later pulled from the mud around it. It follows the wreck from the sky into the lake it still rests in, and the wider eleven nights of raids the city lived through.
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