B52 Victory Museum

B52 Victory Museum in Hanoi is devoted to the history of the Vietnamese revolution, the First Indochina War, and the Vietnam War. The American Operations Rolling Thunder, Linebacker, and Linebacker II, as well as the air defense of Hanoi, receive special attention.

During the twelve days and nights of the “Hanoi-Dien Bien Phu in the Air” campaign in 1972, the Vietnamese Air Defense Force shot down 81 aircrafts, including 34 B52s, forcing the United States to sign the Paris Agreement in 1973 and withdraw from Vietnam. Today, forty years later, the B-52 Victory Museum Hanoi displays the majority of relics from that operation, including weaponry, photos, documents, wreckage, and a variety of other artifacts that celebrate the ingenuity and inventiveness of Hanoi’s forces and citizens.

The museum’s exhibition space is 1500 square meters. This is a regional referral construction, maturity of the capital, armed forces over the period, including 12 days with a focus on nights battling furiously with the capital’s air victories of the Union “Red Star.” The statistics table, in particular the photographs of the bombed-out wreckage of Hanoi’s Kham Thien street, Bach Mai Hospital, and Hanoi’s railway station, have entered the annals of history. In addition, Marquette’s general interests in the evolutions of the air combat of Dien Bien Phu are displayed in a room on campus. This room’s three-dimensional representation recreates the local geography, the air defense of the battlefield, and the crash of a B-52 bomber. Here are some of Hanoi’s most remarkable recreations of historical events.

The most notable feature of the outdoor exhibition is proof of the devastating U.S.: a B52 crash measuring 48.07 meters in length with a wingspan of 56.42 meters, as well as several additional aircraft fragments. Simply spend a few minutes to walk to the neighboring Huu Tiep lake, and you’ll be able to pinpoint the precise location where the B52 bomber crashed on December 27, 1972. This lake is also the only location in Hanoi where a portion of the B52 remains have been preserved up until the present. It is commonly known as “B-52 lake.”

In addition to preserving and recreating the great military history of Hanoi during the years of ferocious battle, the museum is also a location where numerous US veterans and Vietnamese ex-servicemen come to relive their profound memories of the war that occurred over four decades ago.

Opening hours: 8.00AM – 11.30AM and 13.30PM-16.30PM every day except for Monday and Friday.
Entrance fee: 30,000vnd/ticket