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

Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...

. The museum's name refers to the "more than a dozen" Boeing B-52 bombers shot down in December 1972 by North Vietnamese air defense crews. The museum comprises one main building with displays on the history of the Vietnamese revolution, the

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, the

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, Operations Rolling Thunder,

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and

Linebacker II Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu in the air, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December ...

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 Huu Tiep Lake which contains 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 A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...

(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.

Aircraft on display

Aircraft on outside display are: *wreckage of a B-52D or G Stratofortress *

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Its nicknames include: "''Balalaika''", because its planf ...

Other display items

Also on display outside are: *

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-1 *ZPU-2 *ZPU-4 * M1939 37mm AA gun *

57 mm AZP S-60 AZP S-60 (, abbrev. АЗП (AZP); literally: ''Automatic anti-aircraft gun S-60'') is a Soviet towed, road-transportable, short- to medium-range, single-barrel anti-aircraft gun from the 1950s. The gun was extensively used in Warsaw Pact, Middle ...

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radar *two SA-2 ''Guideline'' SAMs File:B-52 engines.jpg, B-52 engines File:SA-2 missiles.jpg, SA-2 missiles File:MiG-21 at B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi.jpg, MiG-21 File:Museum mural 1.jpg, Museum mural 1 File:Museum mural 2.jpg, Museum mural 2 File:Huu Tiep Lake plaque.jpg, Huu Tiep Lake plaque File:Wreckage of B52 bomber, downtown Hanoi, Vietnam.jpg, B-52 wreckage in Huu Tiep Lake

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Vietnamese press article on the MuseumArticle 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
Ba Đình Air force museums Indochina Wars Museums in Hanoi History museums in Vietnam Vietnam War museums Military and war museums in Vietnam Military history of Hanoi

Aircraft on display

Other display items

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