User:Flschaff

Reading the Wikipedia article on B-50 Aircraft, I see nothing of their use in the Korean War either as Re-Com or as nuclear bombers.

I flew on B-50's when they were nuclear bomb carrying bombers flying over the USSR during the Korean War. They were In-flight Re-fueled by C97's, a variant of the B50.

Three C-97As were converted into aerial refueling tankers with rear loading door removed and a flight refueling boom added. After the design was proven, they were converted back into the standard C-97A.

planehistoria.com has this

During the early Cold War years, the vast northern borders of the Soviet Union had many open areas with scant defensive radar coverage and limited detection capabilities.

The 55th SRW’s RB-50 aircraft frequently flew sorties along these borders and, when needed, penetrated deeper into Soviet territory. Initially, Soviet forces offered little resistance due to sparse radar coverage, and their World War II-era fighters couldn’t intercept the high-flying RB-50s.

However, with the introduction of the MiG-15 interceptor in the early 1950s, these missions became extremely dangerous. Several RB-50s were shot down by Soviet air defenses, and intelligence personnel scrutinized the wreckage. --- ALSO IN 1952, B-50's OF THE 8TH Air Force, 97th Bomber Wing were stationed in Lakenheath and Mildenhall, UK with single bomb bays and in-Flight Re-fueling capability by C-97 re-fueling aircraft and, after being re-fueled both outbound and home-bound, they were carrying nuclear bombs over the USSR warning Stalin and they could be dropped if the USSR became involved in the Korean War.

As said above, "their World War II-era fighters couldn’t intercept the high-flying RB-50s" but they tried by flying vertically upwards as far as they could firing their weapons so we did get a few bullet holes in the aircraft bellies and bot serious damage.