some B52's on Guam

[armyjunk2]

I believe we have a big B52 fan in here so I took these for him, Andersen AF Base Guam and I didnt have much luck finding other wrecks, but I didnt look very hard, I was looking mostly for tanks and artillery and saw lots.

1. ol 100


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8 Arc Light B52


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I also saw this, no idea what but someone here will know
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[lmritger]

That may be the second biggest chunk of an Aichi D3A "Val" outside of Fredericksburg, Texas! Wonder where the rest of it is...

Thanks for the pics, armyjunk!

Lynn

[JohnB]

BTW: An Arc Light survivor is on display at Fairchild AFB. It is credited with a MiG kill.

[Pat Carry]

Pretty awesome photos!

[Xray]

Couldn't quite make out all of what the plaque said.
How did its remains end up there ?

[armyjunk2]

How's this Xray?

In 1983, civil engineers and maintenance personnel discovered that the
Salty air and damp climate of Guam had corroded 55-0100 so badly that it
Was rendered unsafe. Aircraft 56-0586 replaced Old 100 at the Arc Light
Memorial but retained the markings of 55-0100, Aircraft 55-0100 was then
Removed to the west side of the airfield and earmarked for destruction under
The Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement (SALT) It was subsequently
Dismantled between 12-16 July 1986. However, a typhoon in 1987 scattered
55-100’s fuseslage into the jungle with the tail section coming to a rest in its
Present location. Encroaching jungle concealed the aircraft until mid-1991
When Typhoon Paka uncovered the tail and assorted debris.

In 1999, the Andersen AFB Boy Scouts Troop 20 established this
Memorial and maintain it quarterly. Mr.Bill Harris 36 ABW Historian
Wrote the narrative on the signs.

[Scott Rose]

cool, I used to play on that B-52 (the one on display) when I was a kid!

[tom d. friedman]

man that arc light buff looks great despite the heavy sea salt air. the usaf did a great job w/ the corosion protection.

[Cherrybomber13]

From https://sites.google.com/site/arclightyoungtiger/
Andersen AFB's Arc Light Memorial To Be Dismantled
Found on Facebook on February 13, 2014
Posted by John Thompson


The Arc Light memorial B-52 will be dismantled starting next week. The plan as I understand it will be to remove the aircraft, and paint a memorial shadow of the outline of Old 100 on the ground below where the plane used to sit. Then they will take the tail section from the B-52 currently representing "old 100" and mount it at the rear of the shadow. Then take a tail section from a current day B-52 and mount it next to that tail section and paint it with the squadron markings of the current B-52 group that is deployed here to Andersen to support our Continuous Bomber Presence mission.

I know a lot of you are like "WHAT!!!!!!" But, hear me out, as you all know corrosion is crazy here on Guam and they have had issues keeping the aircraft from rusting away ever since they mounted the first aircraft at Arc Light park. It has got so bad in the last few years they had to put a retaining fence around the aircraft to keep people from getting under the plane for fear it may fall and injure someone.

In today's Air Force when they are looking to cut 25K Airman it just did not justify the thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars they were spending to keep the aircraft safe.

We will try and photo document the deconstruction of the plane over the next couple of weeks.

[Ken]

This has nothing to do with Cherrybomber and I apologize for hijacking his quote. It's just that his words struck me in such a way that I realized that his announcement, which I edited below, may someday apply to any number of airplanes currently outside. Over the coming years, I'm sad to think of how many times this will be repeated. Some of these will be justified and/or unavoidable and others, like the Barksdale B-24 will simply be a darn shame. -- Ken

I know a lot of you are like "WHAT!!!!!!" But, hear me out, as you all know corrosion is crazy here in (insert town name here) and they have had issues keeping the aircraft from rusting away ever since they mounted the first aircraft at (insert name here) park. It has got so bad in the last few years they had to put a retaining fence around the aircraft to keep people from getting under the plane for fear it may fall and injure someone.

In (insert current year here) Air Force when they are looking to cut (insert number here) Airmen it just did not justify the thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars they were spending to keep the aircraft safe.

We will try and photo document the deconstruction of the plane over the next couple of weeks.