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Old May 4, 2004, 02:49 pm   #14 (permalink) (top)
floridian
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>> who told you that load of bs?

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The total tonnage of bombs dropped over North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos came to about 8 million (about four times the tonnage used in all of WWII)
http://home.earthlink.net/~aircommando1/Vietnam.htm

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As US troops were being withdrawn, Nixon stepped up the use of US air and naval power. From 1969 to the end of 1971, the US had dropped 3.3 million tons of bombs on South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, more than Johnson had dropped in five years and more than the US had dropped on Europe and the Pacific in World War II.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections....ticle&artid=614


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Altogether, the explosive power of the bombs dropped by the U.S. on Vietnam was four times that dropped by the U.S. in all of WWII, or the equivalent of 640 Hiroshimas.
Review of A History of Bombing book by Sven Lundquist, reviewed at: http://prague.tv/pill/article.php?name=bombing
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