Bombers at Andersen

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- First Lt. Sam Hilyer, a B-52 Stratofortress navigator, unloads crew baggage after his aircraft landed here Feb. 22. Six B-52s and about 300 people from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., are deploying here to support U.S. Pacific Command's request for a rotational bomber force on Guam. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. DeNoris A. Mickle)

Cold-weather mission

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- B-52H Stratofortress aircraft sit in snowy conditions on the flightline here Jan. 27. The base received about 12 inches of snow and had weather conditions of minus 45 degrees with wind gusts of 27-plus mph. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Rich)

Out in the cold

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AFPN) -- Airmen from the 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron conduct a fuel enrichment valve test on a B-52H Stratofortress here Jan. 15 while the temperature sits at 6 below zero. Contractors from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and Wichita, Kan., helped the squadron in a weeklong test to modify the fuel controls for cold-weather engine start ups. (U.S. Force photo by Airman Fallon Shea)

Ordnancemen load bombs on a B-52 Stratofortress

1990's -- Ordnancemen use an MJ-1 bomb loader to load Mark 117 750-lb. bombs on a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft during Operation Desert Shield.

It's a 'brr-r-rrtiful' new year

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Senior Airman Zachary Miller closes an ice-encrusted cowling panel on a B-52H Stratofortress. Temperatures here recently averaged minus 20 degrees with wind chill. Miller is assigned to the base's 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Rich)

Bombs Away

OVER NEVADA -- A B-52H Stratofortress drops a load of M-117 750-pound bombs during a training run here. During Desert Storm, B-52s delivered 40 percent of all the weapons dropped by coalition forces. The first Gulf War saw the longest strike mission in the history of aerial warfare when B-52s took off from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., launched conventional air-launched cruise missiles and returned to Barksdale -- a 35-hour, non-stop combat mission. (U.S. Air Force photo)