Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War

The Air War (1x13)

Ausstrahlung: Nov 19, 1980

The Thirteenth volume of The Ten thousand Day War covers the air war, the US main strategy in stopping the North's advance into the South. Surgical Bombing was the starting theory we would warn the North of what we were going to bomb. Use of the US ability to deliver bombs was controlled and directed directly by the White House under the supervision of the president himself, yes President Johnson actually picked the targets and the munitions applied to them. Various types of bombing strategies are attempted but all fail in their objectives. In 8 years of bombing, the US drops over 15 million bombs on Vietnam totaling 8 million tons. Four times the total tonnage dropped by US forces in the entirety of WWII. The destructive force is equivalent to 800 Hiroshima bombs.