Text 2979, 44 rader
Skriven 2009-02-23 07:29:14 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
   Kommentar till text 2938 av God Dan (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: MORMONS
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Replying to a message of God Dan to Bob Ackley:

 GD>> I didn't know that.  What was the reasoning behind the in-action?

 BA>> I think Ike was philosophically opposed to colonies, which is what
 BA>> French Indo- China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) was.  That's probably
 BA>> the main reason.  Followed by the then recent events in northeast
 BA>> Asia (specifically: Korea). 

 GD> It still makes it strange that he'd start supporting one side over the
 GD> other there.  

I don't think the US was supporting either side at that time.  Note that in
1946 Ho Chi Minh had a functioning government in Hanoi and applied for
diplomatic recognition from the Allied Powers.  The liasion people that had
worked with Ho fighting against the Japanese all recommended approval.
DeGaulle had a hissy fit, Truman thought he needed deGaulle's support for
his UN project and Ho's request was therefore denied.  France moved back
into Indochina and got its butt kicked out eight years later.

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 BA>> couple of miles long.  During Vietnam SAC generally flew its B-52s in
 BA>> formations of three  airplanes, all with the same target.  After one
 BA>> such mission, photo reconnaissance of the area could find no
 BA>> evidence that any bombs had been dropped anywhere in  the area let
 BA>> alone on the target - and those RF-101s took a strip of film that
 BA>> covered an area about 25 miles wide.  SAC's navigators were supposed
 BA>> to be better than that.... 

 GD> Sounds like something was majorly wrong.  Was anything determined as
 GD> to why it happened on that incident? 

I don't think anybody cared much.  It's the only such incident I'm aware of.
I do know that during Linebacker an F-4 jockey saw an SA-2 site launch 
missiles at B-52s, and a few seconds after launch a train of bomb explosions
began on the far side of that site and walked right through it, destroying the
rest
of the missiles (an SA-2 site usually had six on launchers) and the radars and
guidance equipment; the missiles that had been launched lost their guidance 
signals and didn't hit anything.

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