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...incident cast a further shadow over claims of precision bombing, most recently heard regarding the raids on Hanoi, where American planes have hit the French consulate and the Bach Mai Hospital. Still, apparently nothing will deter the US. bombardiers from their appointed rounds. Said one military spokesman: "There will be mistakes from time to time, just like the mistake of the L-1011 going down in the Everglades. People still fly commercial airplanes; we will continue to bomb...
Spokesman for Medical Aid for Indochina announced their intention yesterday to use their share of the proceeds toward the rebuilding of Bach Mai hospital in Hanoi. The Pentagon has now confirmed the possibility that American bombs caused the destruction of that hospital...
Children searched among the debris looking for parents, parents for children. At the Bach Mai hospital, patients were trundled piggyback from the smoldering rubble as the director ran frantically from one victim to another. The Bach Thai hospital for tuberculous patients was razed. The railroad station had been destroyed, the Gia Lam airport runways pocked. Stacks of coffins lay at street corners. Here and there on a wall, someone scrawled, "Nixon, you will pay this blood debt" and "We will avenge our compatriots massacred by the Americans...
...those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next to one of the key power plants...
Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...