Some of the bombing targets:
  • 240,840 thatched roofed houses
  • 48 agricultural experimental research centers together with 6,000 agricultural machines
    and 46,000 buffaloes
  • 35 million old trees
  • 400 factories
  • 18 power stations
  • 410 km of railroad and over 100 train stations
  • 15,100 bridges
  • 2,923 high schools and universities
  • 808 cultural works
  • 350 hospitals
  • 1,500 maternities and dispensaries
  • 484 churches, 465 pagodas and temples
Running from napalm
Attached fetuses
Results of napalm
Bomb's away.
It's so much easier when their tied up.
US soldiers helping take care of each other.
Fleeing the fight
President Johnson
President Nixon
 
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
Total
North
Vietnam
30,000
200,000
270,000
200,000
3,600
13,400
10,300
210,000
937,300
South
Vietnam
21,800
302,000
598,000
1,059,000
957,000
511,000
238,000
561,700
4,444,700
 
51,800
502,000
868,000
1,259,000
960,600
524,400
248,300
771,700
5,382,000
I thought we were supposed to be fighting the North. Might this confusion have cost us the war?
This table shows the amount of bombs (in tons) that the US dropped on both North and South
Vietnam throughout the war.  The discrepancy between North and South is interesting.
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