We Were Crewdogs VIII - Sleep Well Tonight
We didn’t do it for medals, and we damn sure didn’t do it for money. Civilian jobs had much greater rewards for much less effort and risk. But, each person who has written a story about something that happened to him while serving as a crewdog on a B-52 has his own reason why he signed his name on a piece of paper and swore an oath of allegiance which would put him in harm’s way. Maybe it was to be patriotic, or maybe it was just the thrill of adventure which lured him into the cockpit of one of the world’s most deadly and infamous bombers, the B-52."We Were Crewdogs VIII - Sleep Well Tonight"
Released in July 2018
Over 50 new stories by 26 contributors.
$10.00 each + postage.
Authors' Stories
(The accuracy of names and facts of each story included in this volume is the sole responsibilities of the contributing authors and unaltered by the editor.)
Henry C. Barrows
A POW Speaks on Memorial Day
John R. Bair
Alert Antics
Doug Boggs
Linebacker II: A Perspective
Sean "Gone Wild" Celi
View From the Mothership
An Unintended Consequence of Innovation
Larry Chasteen, PhD
Klaxon on Guam
Don Clawson
Chrome Dome - B-52 Airborne Alert
Doug Cooper
Free the POGs
Crewdogs and the Command Post
Pat Daly
My 35 Minute Flight
Midnight Golf on Guam
Unidentified Bogey – 12 O’clock
Derek H. “Detch” Detjen
An “Inflight” Emergency?
My Last Two TDYs to Guam
U-Tapao Memories
Peter A. Derenski
Aircrew Antics
Russell Greer
Aiming High
Lee Holmes
Sniffing out Ruskie Nukes
John R. “Johnny” Johnson
We’re Not in SAC Anymore, Toto!
Kevin L. “Anvil” Kent
The “Training Use Only” Crew
Jay Lacklen
Minimum Interval Takeoff (MITO)
First ORI
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86Second ORI98
98Engines Dancing on the Wing
Sacrificial Lambs
Ron Mathis
Pulling Satellite Alert
Paul A. Maye
Going To War With Gunners
Bright Star 82
A Gunner’s Peril
James “Jim” Pigg
Guns Flys
My Mission – 20 December 1972
Richard S. “Rock” Roszak
Flying the B-52D at Carswell AFB
Faulty Autopilot, Low Altitude!
Kenneth Schmidt
The Road to My B-52 SAC Career
My Last B-52 Flight
A Much Too Busy “Busy Observer”
George R. Thatcher, Ed.D
Bird Strike
Came the Eight Hundred
SAC-umcised
Jack Thomas
Where’s Waldo?
Tommy Towery
Introduction
Musical Chairs
Clothes Make the (Air) Man
Please Mister Postman
Walter W. Want
Stand-By One
Steve Winkle
Qualified Versus Experienced
Randall E Wooten
I Have a Right to Know Where We Are!
The War’s Kinda Over
The “Guam-Bomb”
“America is a Wonderful Place”
