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Post by hornet32 on Jul 26, 2014 15:14:47 GMT -5
The U.S. dropped more bombs in Vietnam than in Germany and Japan combined . I have been within one mile of a B-52 strike the ground trembled and shook as if there was an earthquake a big earthquake , imagine being in a tunnel when 90 tons of bombs came tumbling rumbling down .
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 15:25:44 GMT -5
No thank you!
...and i will have to do some research, but I have long doubted the tonnage claim.
SJ
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Post by Swampy on Jul 26, 2014 16:33:05 GMT -5
And they wasted their bombs - in the Rolling Thunder campaigns, they went about it piecemeal, hoping the communists would calculate the costs as being higher than the benefits and then stopping. Unfortunately for them, the world didn't work like simple equations.
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 26, 2014 16:36:12 GMT -5
B-52's on a Arc Light mission flew in three plane formation at 30,000ft each B-52 carried 30 tons of ground penetrating bombs ( 50ft ) each bomb was 500 lbs had to be heavy to penetrate , just have to do the math , 500 lds dropped from 30000 ft = pain .
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 16:56:04 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 17:01:16 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 17:15:07 GMT -5
Looks like Joe Cool's free sunnies have arrived from Washington.
SJ
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 26, 2014 17:20:26 GMT -5
Arc Light missions were not part of rolling thunder , one was strategic the other tactical .
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 17:28:09 GMT -5
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 26, 2014 17:30:27 GMT -5
Your point is ? .
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Post by Sir John on Jul 26, 2014 17:36:46 GMT -5
The Wikipedia claim from the 'Rolling Thunder' entry is wrong!
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Post by hornet32 on Jul 26, 2014 18:44:53 GMT -5
Rolling Thunder was all wrong it negated itself . All one has to do is look at katum to see how useless it was .
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