Photos The Cold War

[NebrHogger]

Those were the days of "duck and cover".

I attended country school in the 50s. We often had "atom bomb drills" in which you crouched under your desk covering your head.

 

[BravoZulu]

30th Nov 1986
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress aircraft from the 2nd Bombardement Wing take off from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana (USA). Three cells of six B-52s and KC-10 Extender aircraft took off seconds apart under combat conditions during a minimum interval takeoff exercise. The exercise was part of an operational readiness inspection by the USAF Strategic Air Command Inspector General Team.

 

[RL64RL]

30th Nov 1986
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress aircraft from the 2nd Bombardement Wing take off from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana (USA). Three cells of six B-52s and KC-10 Extender aircraft took off seconds apart under combat conditions during a minimum interval takeoff exercise. The exercise was part of an operational readiness inspection by the USAF Strategic Air Command Inspector General Team.
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I grew up on SAC bases as a kid. During summer of ‘79 or ‘80, anti- nuke activists planned an open air concert just outside Ellsworth AFB SD, headlined by Jackson Browne. Thousands of folks began streaming into Rapid City, and made their way to a ranch located just off base, and on the Ellsworth flight path. Seems the landowner had a beef with the Air Force, and offered up his pastures for the concert, ala Woodstock. On the day of the gig, guest speakers and lesser known bands did their thing. When Jackson Browne started to take the stage, the 44th Bomb Wing began an alert exercise. Multiple cells of KC-135s, followed by multiple cells of B-52s took off. It’s quite a show that if witnessed, is not forgotten. Never heard how the concert was, but the peaceniks sure did get a show (and a loud one at that).

 

[Rohme]

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[BravoZulu]

USN sailors from USS San Jacinto visiting the Russian heavy aircraft cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov and inspecting a Sukhoi Su-27K/Su-33 naval aircraft. Feb 23rd, 1996

 

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A-5A Vigilante of VAH-1 "Smokin' Tigers" being launched from aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) during operation "Long Horn", 1965

A pair of VAH-1 A-5A Vigilantes being readied for launch from the bow catapults of USS Saratoga (CVA-60), c.1964

 

[BravoZulu]

Tanks of the US Army driving over Königsplatz in Munich as a part of the military parade of the American forces, which are stationed in and around Munich, on 21st May 1955.

 

[BravoZulu]

Mirage IV. These are undergoing final assembly in 1963.

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RAF 81 Squadron Photo Recce Mosquito beats up RAF Seletar, Singapore after the war. The navigator stares out the side window at the photographer. 1954

 

[BravoZulu]

10th Jan 1964. A Boeing B-52H Stratofortress (61-023) flying with its vertical stabilizer sheared off. The aircraft was being used as a testbed to identify structural weaknesses in the airframe when the event occurred. The crew, with the assistance of Boeing engineers on the ground, was able to land the aircraft safely.

 

[BravoZulu]

The Final Vulcan Scramble. As the last Vulcan squadron it fell to 50 Sqn to perform the final 4 ship scramble at Waddington on March 27 1984. 50 Sqn disbanded at the end of the month

 

[uktabber]

GREAT Vulcan pictures mate..........Thank You for posting!!! ?

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

 

[uktabber]

VERY Cold War'isk photos I must say........interesting composition.

 

[BravoZulu]

Chieftain tank from the British Army's 1st Royal Tank Regiment, tracked in a tank trap-pit during an exercise at the Soltau training ground in West Germany - 1988

 

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Banner "Occupiers, go home!" on the streets of the Czech city of Plzen on the day of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, August 21, 1968

Nurses with prams blocking Soviet tank in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1968

 

[BravoZulu]

Soviet tanks in Budapest. Photo by Erich Lessing, 1956

 

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BAC Lightning

 

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Anti-communist militia fighter with an AK in Bucharest. Romanian Revolution, 1989

 

[Euroamerican]

I attended country school in the 50s. We often had "atom bomb drills" in which you crouched under your desk covering your head.

We were still doing that in central Illinois in elementary school in 1969 through at least 1971 or so. We had to line up in the hall way in the corner of the wall, in duck and cover position. It had a secondary purpose there too, for tornado warnings.

The last time I heard the monthly air raid siren tests was sometime around 1976 in Boise Idaho.