Rose-1 -B52 pommittaa Radio Hanoin lähetinrakennuksen

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Lahdessa on tiedossa se, että Neuvostoliiton kaukotoimintailmavoimat talvisodan aikana pommittivat Lahden radioaseman lähetinrakennusta, sitä, mikä on nykyään Lahden kaupunginmuseon radio- ja televisiomuseo "Mastola" Radiomäenkatu 37:ssä. Toisaalta silloin, kun yleisradioasemien pitkillä ja keskipitkillä asemilla oli merkitystä ennen Internetiä ja ennen pääasiassa vain toisen maailmansodan jälkeen noin 50 km:n päähän kantavia aikaisempaa kohinattomampaa ja laadukkaampaa musiikkia tarjovien taajuusmoduloituja lähetyksiä tarjoavia yleisradioasemia, oli AM-radioiasemien pommittaminen kannattavaa. https://youtu.be/aShr8VCCAOM?t=507

Rose-1 saattoi pudota https://www.flickr.com/photos/62445171@N00/4671331442

There were ten B-52s shot down over North Vietnam (others crashed elsewhere) during Operation Linebacker II, as follows:

Charcoal 1 - 18 December

Rose 1 - 19 December

Orange 3 - 20 December

Quilt 3 - 20 December

Olive 1 - 21 December

Blue 1 - 22 December

Tan 3 - 21 December

Scarlet 1/3 - 22 December

Ebony 2 - 26 December

Cobalt 2/1 - 28 December

. . . none of which crashed on the 27th. So far as I can discover from the internet, this aircraft was probably Rose 1, which was brought down by a SAM missile while bombing Radio Hanoi and the railway repair works at Gia Lam.

If this is Rose 1, then the 6 crew were Capt Hal Wilson (Pilot); Capt Charles Brown (Co-Pilot); Maj Fernando Alexander (R/Nav); Capt Henry Barrows (EWO) - all of whom were captured but survived the war, as well as Capt Richard Cooper (Navigator) and E6 Charlie Poole (tail gunner) - neither of whom did. Radio Hanoi at first announced that Charlie Poole had been captured, but later went silent on his fate, which contributed to the rumour, that continued long after the end of the war, that the Vietnamese continued to hold American prisoners in secret. The remains of both Charlie Poole and Richard Cooper were eventually repatriated.

https://www.suomenmaa.fi/uutiset/rakast ... -koneella/

Moskovassa oli Moskovan Tiltu, ja Hanoissa Hanoin Hannah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hannah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Hanoi