Table of Contents
Mission
We Were Crewdogs - Mission Statement
My B-52 Crewdog Experience
(Six fill-in-the-blanks pages to record your own information)
Becoming A Crewdog
The Language of the B-52 Crewdogs
Peace Is Our Profession
Becoming a Crewdog
My First Crew
The Aircraft Bible - The Dash-One
Peacetime SAC Warriors
The B-52 Peacetime Missions
Dropping the Big One
Say Cheese, Please
Let Sleeping Crewdogs Lie
Banned From the Officer’s Club
The Green Ball of Fire
Northern Wedding - A Four-Ship to Europe, 1976
Nice approach, Co!
Thunderstorm on Final
Guarding Our Freedom -The Cold War
The B-52 and Nuclear Alert
Sitting Alert – A Personal View
DEFCON 2 Cuban Missile Crisis
Satellite Alert and SAC Security
And It Wasn’t Even an Eskimo Pie
Rookie Alert Tour - SAC ORI on Final
Bite Me Crank, Mate!
Known-Notice Alert Exercise
Santa Don’t Need No Stinking Line Badge
When a Good Message Goes Bad, Very Bad
Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
The Day the Klaxon Sounded “For Real”
The B-52 in Combat -Vietnam
Vietnam and Linebacker II
A Picture Is Worth 444 Words
Linebacker II – A Personal View
The “Door Rester”
The Crew of Ruby II
Bailout
IP Inbound – The Final Minutes of Charcoal 1
The Dreaded Bag Drag
Just Another Flight
Unclassified Materials
A Few Shots from the Gunners
Put Out the Arc Light, Free the POGS, and Other Memories
Fading Memories, Odds and Ends, and Bar Stories
Mission Debrief
Conclusions
B- 52 Crewdogs in Books and Movies
The Contributing Authors Information
This book is a collection of stories told by 17 contributing authors who were former Crewdogs (crew members) in the US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress. Several of these contributors are well-known authors of their own books and lend their skills to this collection.
