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April 1966. U.S. starts to use B-52s to bomb North Viet Nam. U.S. troop strength rises to 389,000 at end of year...
...take an aerial photograph of a place like Quang Tri, and then you take a photograph after B-52s have been over it. You can't believe what happened. What bothers me is that when you're there, you accept it. You rationalize it. You condone it. You say it's right because they are the enemy, and then when you come home, you can't believe that you didn't have the courage to open your mouth against that kind of murder, that kind of devastation over people, over animals...
...farmers, are crammed into a tiny area one-third the size of Rhode Island. In the past two months, American planes have flown more than 125 missions over Dinh Tuong-an average of more than two a day. Each mission is composed of anywhere from three to 36 B-52s; each plane is loaded with 30 tons of bombs. A few of the victims at present in Dinh Tuong Hospital...
...year-old rice farmer, was cutting rice with ten other men in Sam Giang district several weeks ago. About 11 a.m. several B-52s dropped bombs in the field. Eight of the men were killed outright. Only Si and one other made it to the hospital. "I heard nothing," he says. "Then the loud, shaking sound of the falling bombs. I dived. The others were killed instantly...
...completed preliminary studies to determine how the Defense Department could create and utilize a robot air force. By the end of the 1970s, in the opinion of some weapons planners, the U.S. might well have more robot bombers in its arsenal than its current inventory of almost 400 B-52s...