B-52 Operation Arc Light

[russelljfd]

Who said they were refugees, or highland ethnic minority villages?

[russelljfd]

@ centurion180ad - I hope a B-52 passes over your dumb-ass and 'unloads'

[centurion180ad]

@russelljfd If you are a War Criminal, I hope you get yours....

[russelljfd]

@ centurion180ad - How do you know that the Rural “targets” in Laos & Cambodia didn't deserve it?

[centurion180ad]

@russelljfd I know because I read Hague & Geneva Conventions.

You don't bomb refugees, or highland ethnic minority villages.

[hammerogod]

Load up Google Earth and go look at the Arc Light impact areas.

They are mostly still clearly visible.

[tock101]

Fact, the top speed of the B-52 is a national secret.

[russelljfd]

I would rather have my tax dollars going to defense dept than then feeding minorities who do nothing but welch off the government State, government Nation programs. Build more weapons and build more weapon platforms and there will be more jobs for more Americans. While making America strong against American foes.

[centurion180ad]

Narration is full of malarkey.

Primary source of interdiction of the HCM Trail was SOG, mostly Army.

I will not go into myriad tales of daring-do & untold heroics, but there are some very pissed off veterans that have since found out that most of the War Crime & Crime Against Humanity was INTENTIONAL, targeting of noncombatant populations for carpet bombing squandering their sacrifices.

This combined with PHOENIX is enough to HANG the MacNamara, kissinger & rockeffleller criminals.

[hammerogod]

@centurion180ad

While I agree that Robert McNamara should have been hung I would like to remind you that carpet bombing was first used by the Luftwaffe over Spain before WWII began.

Most of the areas in Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia where carpet bombing was used were virgin jungle with a population of roughly Zero.

You can use Google Earth to confirm that.

That jungle is still fucked up.

[centurion180ad]

@hammerogod It was criminal when Luftwaffed did it too.

NILO records and eye witness demonstrate that carpet bombing when not properly designated, was dropped upon infrared heat sources when they were almost certainly refugees holing up in hard to access remote hamlet locations.

This was brought up, and the officers asking where threatened.

[emiliob7878]

genocide



[ralphmalph9]

Some of the bombing footage is Laos, not VietNam.

[EdikShepherd]

My best friend's old man told me about the time in Vietnam that he saw arc light bombings on the horizon and could feel his legs shaking from miles and miles away.

[jsward123]

@EdikShepherd arclights got the impact velocity of a small nuke

[russelljfd]

FreshMintBlue

A (B-52) is a "good" nuclear bomber.

A (B-1) is a "very good" nuclear bomber...

A (B-2) is a "great" nuclear bomber!

[centurion180ad]

@russelljfd B-2 is an overpriced White Elephant.

B-2 is a ripoff of wealth for corporation feudalism. The Debt Syndicate has this overpriced chunk of shit built for them, and then unemploys the Officers' Flying Corps with all those fucking criminal drones running PHOENIX terrorism & assassination programs for CIA.

FUCKERS

[russelljfd]

In 1966, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) continued to support military actions in Southeast Asia with B-52 conventional bombing missions. In 1966, over 5,000 B-52 sorties were flown to support operations against the enemy. Although the B-52s were used primarily against targets in South Vietnam. The objective here was to stop the infiltration of enemy troops who, after leaving the Mu Gia Pass, crossed over into Laos and made their way down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

[centurion180ad]

@russelljfd Rural “targets” in Laos & Cambodia were too often unconfirmed.

THIS is where a criminal slaughter of noncombatants took place.

Carpet bombing was utilized on unconfirmed heat signatures, allegedly-supposedly that of HCM Trail infiltration. Realistic NILO reports reveal that major heat concentrations were refugees fleeing into the hills, from the atrocious ground actions near urban centers in South Vietnam, and/or were unmapped highlander villages.

Kissinger DID this.

[russelljfd]

ARC LIGHT OPERATIONS code name for the devastating aerial raids of B-52 Strato-fortresses against enemy positions in Southeast Asia. The first B-52 Arc Light raid took place on June 18, 1965, on a suspected Vietcong base north of Saigon. In November 1965, B-52s directly supported American ground forces for the first time, and were used regularly for that purpose thereafter.

[Ionizap]

What show is this? I seem to remember watching this and hearing the Narrator saying the B-52 was often an expensive way to till an empty field.

[alpha18412]

Those pesky VC. Why did'nt they just stand out in the open so we could bomb them accurately?

[schroeder8911]

I suppose the lack of secondary explosions could be attributed to this: grass huts, bicycles, monkeys, and people don't explode.

[implantknees]

I was in Guam during Arc Light, 1972. three missions per hour 24/7

[4y6857b]

@implantknees Ah yes... The Mighty MITO. I remember it well. (U Tapao, '73)

[FreshMintBlue]

what do you consider a "good" nuclear bomber - the wording here is important

[peepeevagi]

The B52 is a terrible nuclear bomber, but it's one hell of an iron bomber.

[FreshMintBlue]

Holy shit you're stupid - seriously

[peepeevagi]

What's made the bulk of the BUFF's missions?

Where has it excelled unparalleled?

It's not the best nuclear bomber, not by a long shot, but it's probably the best bomb truck to ever exist.

[indyboom]

what??