We Were Crewdogs V - We Flew The Heavies (B-52)

50 new stories about life as a crewmember of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber.


There are currently six (6) volumes of the We Were Crewdogs Series available as eBooks:

We Were Crewdogs I - The B-52 Collection
We Were Crewdogs II - More B-52 Crewdog Tales
We Were Crewdogs III - Peace Was Our Profession
We Were Crewdogs IV - We Had To Be Tough
We Were Crewdogs V - We Flew The Heavies
We Were Crewdogs - The Vietnam Collection

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1 - Military Career

My Path to Becoming a B-52 Gunner

A Crewdog’s Tale

A B-52 Copilot’s Tale

Rated Supplement

The Saga of Tail End Charlie

My B-52D Gunner

My Encounter with Immortality

The Flight of Tuff-13

My Mother Never Understood

Chapter 2 - Cold War

Deterrence

My Very First Alert Tour

Cold War TDYs 1975-1987—a Personal View

The Elephant Mountain Incident

Oil Burner

He’s Coming Home with What?

Glasgow Invades Dyess - 1968

Was It All for Naught?

Chapter 3 - Southeast Asia

We Were Almost Heroes

Linebacker II - Straw 2 Bravo

150 Foot Bag Drag Times Four

Kadena – X-Wind Launch

Red 2 -7 July 1967

We Were One Plane Ahead

Chapter 4 - Bar Stories

How to Do Bad and Still Be the Top Crew

The Infamous 70-Knot Call

B-52D Ferry Flight to Guam (Yawn)

The Longest Crawl

The BUFF and the Soviet Trawler

Buy-the-Beer Marks on the Nose Gear

My Collection of BUFF Tales

When the Lights Went Out

A Summer Lake Cruise

I Volunteered For This?

Anybody Want a Pachinko Ball

Crewdog Short Tales

The Gorilla

“They Tell You No Lies When You’ve Taken To The Skies”

“I’m Not Flyin’ Tonight”

Chapter 5 - Lest We Forget

Standing Watch

Reflections

In the Midst of Ghosts

Résumé

The Contributing Authors



Jerry Adler

Scott C. Barbu

Ben Barnard

Billy J. Bouquet

Doug Cooper

Jack Cotrel

Derek H. Detjen

Toki Endo

Geoff Engels

Jim Farmer

Russell Greer

Jes Hales

Robert O. Harder

Jack Hawley

Gary Henley

Stephen Henley

Dave Hofstadter

Marv Howell

Tom Jones

Rusty Keller

Nick Maier

Ron Poland

Bill Reynolds

Sam Roberts

Ken Schmidt

George Schryer

Pete Seberger

Dave Thomson

Tommy Towery

David R. Volker

Greg Johnson - Cove