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

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. 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 was an aerial bombing campaign conducted by U.S. Seventh Air Force, Strategic Air Command and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 against targets in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) during the final period of U. ...

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

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(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 (russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet aircraft, jet fighter aircraft, fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich OKB, De ...

Other display items

Also on display outside are: *

ZPU The ZPU (, meaning "anti-aircraft machine gun mount") is a family of towed anti-aircraft gun based on the Soviet 14.5×114mm KPV heavy machine gun. It entered service with the Soviet Union in 1949 and is used by over 50 countries worldwide. ...

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

57 mm AZP S-60 AZP S-60 (russian: Автоматическая зенитная пушка С-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 ...

100 mm air defense gun KS-19 100 mm air defence gun KS-19 (russian: 100-мм зенитная пушка КС-19) was a Soviet anti-aircraft gun. Initially deployed aboard ships as the B-34 during the Second World War, a ground-mounted version was introduced into service ...

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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
Air force museums Museums in Hanoi History museums in Vietnam Indochina Wars Vietnam War museums Military and war museums in Vietnam

Aircraft on display

Other display items

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