On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:59 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Leo Cawley article. > https://monthlyreview.org/2012/11/01/an-ex-marine-sees-platoon/
" Strangely, the air war is absent from the film in ways that might have been included. I kept expecting a patrol to pass through an area that had been hit by 2,000 pound bombs from a B-52 raid." The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombing_campaigns_of_the_Vietnam_War The American air campaign during the Vietnam War was the largest in military history... Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Curtis LeMay stated that "we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombs_in_the_Vietnam_War -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7136): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7136 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81215788/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
