Mister B-52; Mr B-52 nickname Lt Colonel John Paul Vann (1934–72), killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam US
Brig. Gen Nguyen Van Toan, whom Cao Van Vien finally recruited to replace Dzu, and the Vietnamese staff at the Pleiku headquarters nicknamed Vann “Mr. B-52.” — Neil Sheehan, ABrightShiningLie, p. 782, 1988