B-52 drops last M117

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For years, the Air Force’s M117 750-pound bomb was synonymous with “death from above.”

During Vietnam, B-52 crews flying from Thailand and Japan dropped the ordnance as part of Arc Light missions and Operation Linebacker II, and nearly 20 years later, M117s rained down on Saddam Hussein’s army.

On Friday, Pacific Air Forces said goodbye to its inventory of the Vietnam Era ordnance when B-52s dropped the last M117s from PACAF’s stockpile on an uninhabited island off Guam.

 

http://flightlines.airforcetimes.com/2015/06/26/b-52-crews-drop-pacafs-last-vietnam-era-bomb/

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