B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi

The B-52 Victory Museum, Hanoi or Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52 is located at 157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình district, Hanoi. The museum's name refers to the "more than a dozen" Boeing B-52 bombers shot down in December 1972 by North Vietnamese air defense crews.^[1]

B-52 Victory Museum

Bảo Tàng Chiến Thắng B.52
B-52 tail section and Museum building
Location	157 Đội Cấn, Ba Đình Ward, Hanoi
Coordinates	21°02′08″N 105°49′34″E
Type	Military museum
Owner	Government of Vietnam

The museum comprises one main building with displays on the history of the Vietnamese revolution, the First Indochina War, the Vietnam War, Operations Rolling Thunder, Linebacker and Linebacker II 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.^[2]

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 Huu Tiep Lake which contains 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 surface-to-air missile (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.^[3]

Aircraft on display

Aircraft on outside display are:

• wreckage of a B-52D or G Stratofortress
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

Other display items

Also on display outside are:

• ZPU-1
• ZPU-2
• ZPU-4
• M1939 37mm AA gun
• 57 mm AZP S-60
• 100 mm air defense gun KS-19
• Fan Song radar
• two SA-2 Guideline SAMs

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  B-52 engines
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  SA-2 missiles
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  MiG-21
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  Museum mural 1
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  Museum mural 2
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  Huu Tiep Lake plaque
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  B-52 wreckage in Huu Tiep Lake

See also

• Vietnam People's Air Force Museum, Hanoi