page_title: 1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash
section_title: Aborted takeoff
hierarchical_section_title: 1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash / Aborted takeoff
caption_attribution_description: English: Artillery projectiles at Chibana Ammunition Depot, Okinawa, September 1966
context_page_description: On 19 November 1968, a B-52 crashed at Kadena Air Base, on the island of Okinawa, Japan.
context_section_description: The United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52D Stratofortress (serial number 55-0103) of the 4252d Strategic Wing had a full bomb load and broke up and caught fire after the aircraft aborted takeoff at Kadena Air Base while it was conducting an Operation Arc Light bombing mission to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
caption: Tens of thousands of artillery projectiles at Chibana Army Ammunition Depot, September 1969
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