Summary
The B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi or Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52 is located at 157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi.
Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52 | |
 B-52 tail section and Museum building | |
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| Location | 157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi |
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| Coordinates | 21°02′08″N 105°49′34″E / 21.03556°N 105.82611°E |
| Type | Military museum |
| Owner | Government of Vietnam |
The museum comprises one main building with displays on the history of the Vietnamese revolution, the First Indochina War, the Vietnam War, Operations Rolling Thunder, Linebacker and Linebacker II and the air defense of Hanoi. The outdoor displays include the wreckage of a B-52D or G Stratofortress apparently shot down during Operation Linebacker II (although no specific details are provided) and various air defense equipment.[1]
The museum is open Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday from 08:00 to 11:30 and 13:00 to 16:30. Entry is free.
The Museum is located approximately 300m south of the "B-52 lake", Hồ B-52 or Huu Tiep Lake which appears to contain part of the undercarriage section of the B-52 at the Museum. A plaque at the lake states that the aircraft was a B-52G shot down by a Surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired by the 72nd Battalion, 285th Air Defence Missile Regiment on 27 December 1972, however the only B-52s lost that day were two B-52Ds.[2]
Aircraft on display edit
Aircraft on outside display are:
- wreckage of a B-52D or G Stratofortress
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Other display items edit
Also on display outside are:
- ZPU-1
- ZPU-2
- ZPU-4
- M1939 37mm AA gun
- 57 mm AZP S-60
- 100 mm air defense gun KS-19
- Fan Song radar
- two SA-2 Guideline SAMs
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B-52 engines -
SA-2 missiles -
MiG-21 -
Museum mural 1 -
Museum mural 2 -
Huu Tiep Lake plaque -
B-52 wreckage in Huu Tiep Lake
See also edit
References edit
- ^ The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History. DK. 2017. p. 350. ISBN 9780744034639.
- ^ McCarthy, James (1985). USAF Southeast Asia Monograph Series Volume VI Monograph 8 Linebacker II: A View from the Rock (PDF). Office of Air Force History. p. 152. ISBN 978-1477541937. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links edit
- Vietnamese press article on the Museum
- Article on the Museum which indicates that the B-52 was a B-52D callsign Rose 1 shot down on 18 December 1972, the first night of Operation Linebacker II