B-52 raid on Hanoi with combat livemap - 12/26/1972

For my meteorology fans, this is something different. I've always been a student of military history, including the Vietnam War. This is a project I dabbled with over the years where I combined mission record data with tapes from official combat mission tapes pulled from the aircraft. The result: this rendering of what happened that night. This is probably the closest possible thing there is to being there. Target for this aircraft (LILAC 2) were the Hanoi Petroleum Products Storage Area at Hanoi Gia Thuong and the Hanoi Railroad Repair Yards.