Battlefield Vietnam: Ep 10 "Rolling Thunder" (2/6)

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other member nations of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

The Vietcong, the lightly armed South Vietnamese communist insurgency, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The North Vietnamese Army engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large-sized units into battle. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search-and-destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery and air strikes.

The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of a wider strategy called containment. Military advisors arrived beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s and combat units were deployed beginning in 1965. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the Tet Offensive. Under a policy called Vietnamization, U.S. forces withdrew as South Vietnamese troops were trained and armed. Despite a peace treaty signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued. In response to the anti-war movement, the U.S. Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment in June 1973 prohibiting further U.S. military intervention. In April 1975, North Vietnam captured Saigon. North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

Battlefield Vietnam explores some of the most important battles fought during the Vietnam War. There are detailed battlefield descriptions and graphics, accompanied by actual combat footage. The narrator speaks throughout the series, without interviews of actual battle veterans. Detailed analysis of the battle including leaders, commanders, soldiers and weapons is presented. Events preceding the featured battle are included, as well as some aftermath details.

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[davisniall]

I served in Vietnam, then I took an arrow to the knee.

[TheBogdan33]

06:46 fucking Charlie-love"

[xxchinookxx]

Yes, that is true. Is is unfortunate that so lives were lost in vain. I grew up in AZ near an air force base (Williams AFB) during the Vietnam conflict and we had Air Force pilots come to our elementry school to talk about the Air war in Vietnam. I as a 9/ 10 year old kid asked so many questions and learned so much from my "Boyhood heros). Some of these pilots saw action in Hanoi flying F106 Thunderchiefs & F-4 Phantoms. They spoke of the feared SA-2 SAM missles.

[skordijhl]

@xxchinookxx we didn't plan on invading NV and burn everything in path, we planned on beating the NV enough then letting the SV take over, which we did but the SV failed. Not us

[xxchinookxx]

Here's a news flash for you! I served in the 1st Gulf War as a CH-47D Chinook flight engineer having logged 44 flight hours............As for Vietnam, why get involved in a conflict if winning isn't on the agenda?

[gekko434]

@xxchinookxx well thank god you don't. you obviously don't know what war is like. neither do I, but at least I don't wanna find out.

[Magni56]

@xxchinookxx

Large-scale bombing of civilain infrastructure in North Vietnam would have meant direct chinese intervention and hence a shooting war agianst a nuclear power. Johnson didn't "lack the balls", he was merely unwilling to risk millions of american civilians over a small country in southeast asia.

[xxchinookxx]

@xxchinookxx OK

[Acekiller29]

@xxchinookxx but the chinese communists ran the country during the cold war and during ww2 it was the natonalist government (now Taiwan)

[xxchinookxx]

FORBIDDENED from attacking N.Vietnamese fighter bases?....WTF?.....Ah, I get it; LBJ was just a pussy from Texass.