My really good B-52 story comes from a grainy black and white photograph I acquired when I was researching Crickets on a Steel Tiger (my Air War College report on the interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail 1966-1968). 

The label on the back says:  104677 USAF  U.S. Air Force B-52s crisscrossed the countryside around the embattled outpost of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, leaving the entire area interwoven with geometrical patterns of pock marks.  In this pictorial montage which was pieced together from reconnaissance photos, each white dot shows where a bomb fell.   The larger white forms at the right are clouds which characteristically hung over the base.  April 1968.   U.S. Air Force Photo.

On the front, the picture is labeled B-52 STRIKES.  Faint vertical lines show where the strip photos have been matched together.  Near the lower right corner, a grease-pencil mark encircles the US Marine base at Khe Sanh, and you can barely see the outline of the runway with clouds etched around.  Two other labels NW of the base indicate the locations of Hill 881 North and Hill 881 South.  Those hills are about 4 miles off the end of the runway and had been battlegrounds in May 1967 during the NVA's first major attempt to move in on Khe Sanh.  During those Hill Fights, over 100 Marines died and more than 1,000 NVA troops were thought to have been killed. The picture continues for about 9 miles west of Khe Sanh and about ten miles north, so it shows about a hundred square miles.  Lines of little white dots cover most of that 100 square miles.   There are sections of jungle that are more white than dark.  In this region NW of Khe Sanh, it was believed that either two or three (I don't have my books out to crosscheck) NVA Divisions were massing to eventually overrun the Marine base with it's 4,000 defenders and create the American Dien Bien Phu that would drive us out of the war. 
During the 70+day siege of Khe Sanh that followed TET-68, the NVA suffered tens of thousands of casualties within the region covered by this picture.  All those little white dots help explain how and why.  That picture is part of why A Certain Brotherhood had the storyline that it has.  If the NVA could have held off the B-52s and prevented all those lines of white dots, Khe Sanh might very well have been overrun in early 1968.  Airpower made the difference.  Many of those bombs were loaded on B-52s at U-Tapao.  Be proud of our (the TLCB's) role and don't ever forget it.

I feel one other personal connection to that picture.  For about 2 weeks in late July/early August 1967, I lived in a bunker at Khe Sanh.  Flying
conditions were miserable; living conditions weren't much better although the Marines took good care of the FACs as they wanted us available and ready when they needed us.  I did get some good missions, helped pull some of our guys out of the jungle, gave moral support to a company climbing a hill one beautiful afternoon, got to do some legal buzzing one afternoon flying cover over a large convoy heading back down from Khe Sanh to Camp Carroll, etc.  One memory I have is that in the summer of 1967, that hundred square miles looked mostly like virgin jungle from the air, with the exception of the craters left from the battle in May on Hills 881 North and South.  All those lines of little white dots didn't exist.  That's part of why I have always been so impressed by that photo from April 1968.

Take great pride in having served your country when you were called.

Jimmie H. Butler
Nail 12
Feb 67  Jan 68