{"id":149777,"date":"2024-11-19T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/linebacker-ii-how-many-b-52s-were-shot-down-vietnam-christmas-bombing-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:00:21","slug":"linebacker-ii-how-many-b-52s-were-shot-down-in-the-vietnam-christmas-bombing-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149777","title":{"rendered":"Linebacker II: How Many B-52s Were Shot Down In The Vietnam &#8216;Christmas Bombing&#8217; Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Lineback II took place at the end of 1972 and was         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028146\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-historic-missions-b-52-stratofortress\/\" >an enormous B-52 Stratofortress-led bombing campaign<\/a><\/span> over North             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"185433\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vietnam\/\"  >Vietnam<\/a><\/span>. On one dark day for the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span>, an unprecedented six             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60642\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/b-52\/\"  >B-52s<\/a><\/span> were lost over North Vietnam. During the operation, American aviators claimed to have shot down two Vietnamese             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652025\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>MiG-21s<\/span><\/span> with their tailguns (the last time bombers machine-gunned down fighters). Meanwhile, Vietnam claims to have shot down two B-52s in air-to-air combat with MiG-21s (which would be the only time a fighter shot down a B-52). But how many B-52s were lost in total over the multiday campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 B-52s were officially lost in Linebacker II, but the actual number is likely between 22 and 27 when adding in write-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,408,423,1328,5614],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-history","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force","category-vietnam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149778,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149777\/revisions\/149778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}