B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi

The B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi or Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52 is located at 157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi.

B-52 Victory Museum
Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52
B-52 tail section and Museum building
Location157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi
Coordinates21°02′08″N 105°49′34″E
TypeMilitary museum
OwnerGovernment 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.

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.[1]

Aircraft on display

Aircraft on outside display are:

Other display items

Also on display outside are:

  • 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

References
  1. 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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