waite-s wrote:
I was bomb nav in D models, always like to see BUFF pictures.
I was on the ground in Nam, saw the B-52 Arc light effects.
Ammunition stores and deeply dug
enemy trenches and tunnels we re
primary B-52 targets in support of
Operation Cedar Falls, conducted du ring 8-26 January 1967. Cedar Fal ls
involved a concentrated ground assault upon an enemy stronghold covering 25 square miles of the Iron Triangle, 20 miles northwest of Saigon.
Fifteen B-52 strikes hit a tunnel system
that, at places, was 12 to 20 feet beneath the earth's surface. Many of the
tunnels were destroyed and there
were numerous secondary explosions
of enemy ammunition stores. Cedar
Falls resulted in 720 enemy killed, the
majority of them by Seventh Air Force
and B-52 air strikes. In this operation,
the heavy bombers demonstrated that
the enemy could no longer regard any
fortified area as a sanctuary safe from
attack.
Derry