The "52" describes the order in which that specific bomber "B" went into service. Numbering ranges from 1 to 71 with 71 being given the prefix "SR" for strategic reconnaissance.
The B-52 entered service with USAF bomber squadrons in 1955.
Boeing designed and built the B52 Stratofortress Bomber.
The B-52 is not a fighter, it is a heavy strategic bomber.
Nothing. They were "Bomber type 52" and as such, weren't named after anything. They were just the 52nd version of that bomber to be designed and built.
The B17, B24, and B29s were the heavy bombers of WWII. The B52 was the heavy bomber of the Vietnam War.
The B52 bomber did not make it's first flight until 1952, so there was no B52 made during WWII.
B1 Bomber
It wasn't a B-52 it was a B-29 and it was called the Enola Gay, after the pilots mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
B52 B1B B17 B24
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1952 and produced all the way to 1962.
Bombers are ideally dated by year of Intoduction- Bomber, type 52 did not come out until the year l952. No B-52"s were thus, used in World War II or Korea as they type was too experimental in Korean war period. they were used by SAC and the successor Bomber command.