Stories by Authors


Robert C.Amos
Our Flight with the Star

JohnBair
Arc Light and Crew Integrity 
Arc Light and MARS: Staying in Touch 

ClifBanner
Did You Hear That?
BillBeavers
Put Out the Arc Light, Free the POGS, and Other Personal Memories
A Picture Is Worth 444 Words 
Story of the Chili Donut 

PeterBellone
Landing With a (Major) Hanger

DougBoggs
Linebacker II: A Perspective

Walter J.Boyne
First Blood 

Pat Branch
The SAC Guy 

Charles N.Brown
Vietnam and Linebacker II 

KenBrown
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 

William J.Bushman
Blown Tire on Takeoff

JimCarter
Number Two, You’re On Fire!

John R. Cate
Mama Nining's Friendly Tavern 

Robert G.Certain
IP Inbound – The Final Minutes of Charcoal

DougCooper
Memories of a Former Crewdog 
Free the POGs

Jack Cotrel
The Longest Crawl

PatDaly
Midnight Golf on Guam
Unidentified Bogey – 12 O’clock 

BobDavis
Flying with a Dysfunctional Arc Light Crew

George Robert Dempsey
Just Another Flight

Derek H. Detjen
Bombs Away - Well, Almost!
A Baggage Drill
My U-Tapao Memories
My Last Two TDYs to Guam

KentDodson
Ejecting Into a Typhoon

BillEhmig
Pucker Time Out of Guam

Toki Endo
Red 2 - 7 July 1967

JimFarmer
Linebacker II - Straw 2 Bravo

ScottFreeman
Into the Lion’s Den…Again!

RodGabel
Red 1 - The Seventh Confirmed Survivor

Richard L.Gaines
Just Another Landing At Guam
Long Live B-52 Gunners

GeorgeGolding
Charlie Tower 
Charlie on the Job 

CharlesHaigh
LB II: Birthday at Angels Three Zero 

JackHawley
When the Lights Went Out 
Anybody Want a Pachinko Ball 
We Were One Plane Ahead 

DaveHofstadter
Blackout in Charlie Tower 
First Pave BUFFs in Combat 
The BUFF and the Soviet Trawler 

JamesHooppaw
The Dreaded Bag Drag 

MarvHowell
The Rules Were Different at U-Tapao 

George Donald Jackson
The EW Bomb Run 

JayLacklen
First Bomb Run 
Putting Out the Arc Light 

TedLesher
Arc Light A to Z 

NickMaier
Kadena – X-Wind Launch
Reflex Alert on the Rock – 1964

DonMcCrabb
A Birthday Trip to Remember

C.K.McCusker
The Kiwi Colonel 

Charles D.McManus
Foreword 

FredMiranda
The Infamous Linebacker II Routes

JohnD.Mize
Lesson Learned - Never Forgotten! 

Arthur Craig Mizner
Maneuver! Maneuver! Three SAMs - Six O’clock - Closing Fast! 

LarryMoeller
First SAM

Dwight A.Moore
Undesirable Emergency

KarlNedela
Bonus Deal Certificate 
Who’s Got It? 
At the Wall 

VinceOsborne
The “Door Rester” 
Linebacker II – A Personal View

J.J. Parker
Guam Moments

James (Jim)F. Pigg
Guns Flys 
My Mission – 20 December 1972 

GeryPutnam
Engine-Running Spare

MikeRadke
Port Bow and More 

WadeRobert
A Night on the Town

GlennRussell
Don't Shoot Three - It’s Two

Kenneth Boone Sampson
The B-52 Wheel Well Door 

RaySchalk
Red 3 - Red Cell Midair
The Deadly Da Nang Mine Field
Out of Bomber Experiences 

GeorgeSchryer
150 Foot Bag Drag Times Four
My Nylon Let Down

PeterSeberger
Early Arc Light

BobStewart
Crewdogs Tested By Eleven-Day War

CharlesTalcott
U-Tapao Memories

GeorgeThatcher
Our Birds of Green
Faces 
Came the Eight Hundred 

Dennis E. Thibodeau
The Crash of Ash 01

JackThomas
Where’s Waldo?

TommyTowery
Prologue
Falcon Codes254
Fading Memories, Odds and Ends, 
and Bar Stories
A Seiko Watch, a Pair of Brass Candlesticks,
and a Divorce
Sleeping Around on Guam
Patching History 
Please Mister Postman
A Planner’s View of Linebacker II

David R.Volker
We Were Almost Heroes

David C. Wellman
1965 - Initial B-52F Deployment to 
Andersen AFB 
Panel 2E, Row 12 
A Few War Stories

JerryWickline
Bailout 

BruceWoody
“Your Target for Tonight” 

RandyWooten
It Was Broken Before We Took Off 
The “Guam-Bomb” 
“America is a Wonderful Place” 

JohnYork
Arc Light Tour from Hell 

    Arc Light is the code name for the operational deployment and use of B-52 strategic bombers in Southeast Asia during the War in Vietnam. From 1965 to 1973 the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command deployed B-52 Stratofortress bombers and crews from bases in the US to Guam, Thailand, and Okinawa to provide close air support to ground combat operations in Vietnam. The air power displayed during Operation Linebacker II is credited with bringing the hostilities to an end and the release and return of our Prisoners of War.

    This is the ultimate collection of stories extracted from the previously published eight volumes in the “We Were Crewdogs” series of books relating to the good, the bad, the laughter, and the tears as told by the men who participated in that historic operation. If you have all eight volumes of "We Were Crewdogs" you have all these stories, but not in one concentrated source.

    This is a collection of over 125 true stories told by 69 B-52 Crewmembers who participated in Operation Arc Light - the B-52 bombing campaign in Vietnam."We Were Crewdogs - The Vietnam Collection"


 
The Arc Light Anthology
765 Page Paperback Book
$25.00 with free shipping to U.S. and APO addresses