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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:01:05 -0600, "Gene Storey"
wrote: "Ed Rasimus" wrote Why come down Thud Ridge every day? It points at Hanoi, it doesn't have much population and it provides radar screening from SAM sites. But, that means you go the same way every day....Yep. Plinking. Total waste of time. Didn't achieve anything, and akin to Germans bombing London. Big deal. Well, it was my time to waste and pretty damned exciting. If you check some tonnages delivered by the tactical forces during Rolling Thunder (that's without the truly incredible numbers added by the B-52s in Linebacker II), you'll find that we stack up quite comparably to the major Allied bombing campaigns of WW II. Exponentially greater than the "plinking" of the V-1, V-2 and light bombers of the WW II Luftwaffe. In just two days, the 29th and 30th of June, 1966, for example we destroyed 85% of the POL storage and handling facilities in the country. During most of the period we kept nearly 300,000 workers occupied along the NE and NW railroads repairing the bridges and rights of way. In LB II, during eleven days we confirmed kills on 43 SAM sites. There are other examples, but it seems that you have a pretty firmly established position on the matter. Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN #1-58834-103-8 |
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