I was a bombadier in Viet Nam. Believe me, we carpet bombed the jungle, but,
for the most part, and until almost the very end, we were forbidden to target
cities in North Viet Nam. Northern China was entirely out-of bounds, although
supplie depots were there. For much of the war, we were forbidden to puruse the
North Viet Najm army into Laos and Cambodia. We lost that war because ther was
no legitimate government in the South worth the loyalty of its own people, but
for much of the war, and until it was already clearly lost, we fought with one
hand behind our backs.
Dan
Nenad Djurdjevic wrote:
> Not sure about Korea but the as far as Vietnam is concerned I have to bring
> to your attention that the US carpet bombed North Vietnam indiscriminately
> dropping a considerably higher tonnage of bombs than on Germany in WW2.
> They also used napalm and dropped highly toxic defoliant, the infamous
> "agent orange" to destroy the jungles that harboured the Vietcong.
>
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