Carpet Bombing North Vietnam

In 1972 nixon took a risk and responded to north vietnamese aggression by bombing hanoi.

Carpet bombing north vietnam. Transferred uncompressed from film to hd 1080p delivered in prores 422hq. During the vietnam war president richard nixon ordered carpet bombing of north vietnam as well as cambodia which was believed to be supplying the viet cong. Operation arc light bombing of north vietnam 23460 duration. B 52 dropping lots lots of bombs carpet bombing duration.

As civilian casualties mounted and media accounts of the destruction surfaced public support for the carpet bombing diminished. B 52 bombing raids at the battle of ia drang valley in november 1965. Until then this had been kept the secret with some difficulty. During these strikes they concentrated on areas where the most intense enemy presence had been indicated.

On march 10 1967 the bangkok post broke a story that said us officials had confirmed that american warplanes were using thai bases to launch bombing raids on north vietnam. Taking off from bases on guam thailand or okinawa strategic air command b 52 bombers headed for targets in vietnam to dump their huge bomb loads. Carpet bombing also known as saturation bombing is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. Vietnam 4258th strategic.

The biggest ever bombing campaign by us b 52 aircraft took place over christmas 40 years ago when the us dropped at least 20 000 tonnes of explosives on north vietnam mostly hanoi. The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. The destruction inherent in such bombing may weaken the will of the enemy but it also weakens the resolve of the nation prosecuting the battle.