Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana — Laser-Guided Bomb Units, commonly referred to as LGB's, were dropped from the bomb bay of a B-52 Stratofortress for the first time in nearly a decade during ...

On August 1, 1950, the "decision was made to send the 9th Bomb Wing to Guam as an atomic ... crashed during take off from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force base near San Francisco, killing a dozen ...