The Vietnam War Thread

[Strontium]

12 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Yeah but as wars go it was boring.

 

That's commies for you. Humourless fuckers.

[Section_31]

Second world war: Midway, Germans with American accents, rockets, formation of the SAS, heavy water, Spitfires, King Tigers.

 

Nam: kids getting napalmed.

 

Not for me Clive.

[Bjornebye]

32 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Second world war: Midway, Germans with American accents, rockets, formation of the SAS, heavy water, Spitfires, King Tigers.

 

Nam: kids getting napalmed.

 

Not for me Clive.

I see what you're saying but kids getting atom bombs dropped on them..... 

[Kevin D]

Build up to a war is usually more interesting than the war itself. People describing battles is dull, need to see it happen.

[Em City]

It did give us some great music, least of al this.

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

11 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Second world war: Midway, Germans with American accents, rockets, formation of the SAS, heavy water, Spitfires, King Tigers.

 

Nam: kids getting napalmed.

 

Not for me Clive.

You don't know. You weren't there man.

 

 

[Chairman Meow]

11 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

A seriously fucked up episode in US history of which the ramifications still exist.

 

Which Afghanistan and Iraq showed they've learned nothing from. 

[Gnasher]

Makeshift hospital Vietnam War.

 

[Gnasher]

Hands Bridge. Vietnam.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 02/05/2021 at 21:00, Lee909 said:

Ken Burns makes them documentaries

He's done loads. 

 

Next up Hemingway, Muhammad Ali and Benjamin Franklin

Who'd have thought that a barely legible Scottish striker come centre half could make such thought provoking documentaries. Next,Brian Clough remembers Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

[Creator Supreme]

"Winners like North Vietnam?"

 

"It was a draw!"

[Bjornebye]

What Really Happened on 16 March 1968? What Lessons Have Been Learned? A Look at the My Lai Incident Fifty Years Later – The Campaign for the National Museum of the United States Army (armyhistory.org)

 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

From Hamilton Gregory - McNamara’s Folly The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War plus The Induction of Unfit Men, Criminals, and Misfits

aka McNamaras morons, Project 100000

 

Not only were low-quality enlisted men sent to Vietnam, said Westmoreland, but low-quality officers as well. He cited Lieutenant William Calley, convicted in the murder of more than 100 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre in 1968. According to Arnold R. Isaacs, the Vietnam war correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, Calley “flunked out of Palm Beach Junior College with two C’s, a D, and four F’s in his first year and reportedly managed to get through officer candidate school without even learning to read a map or use a compass.”  Marine Corps Colonel Robert D. Heinl said the Army had to take Calley “because no one else was available.”  His own attorney used Calley’s low intelligence as a courtroom defense: the Army, he said, was to blame for My Lai because if it hadn’t lowered mental standards, men like Calley never would have been commissioned. Richard A. Gabriel, who spent 22 years as a U.S. Army officer, says, “Even the staunchest defenders of the Army agree that in normal times a man of Lieutenant Calley’s intelligence and predispositions would never have been allowed to hold a commission.”

My Lai was a unit running amok on a single day. For war crimes committed over a long period, the CIA and MACV ran the Phoenix programme 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program

Tiger force also made Calleys mob look like small fry. These cunts were sanctioned by the brass

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Force

[VladimirIlyich]

On 07/06/2023 at 10:08, Bjornebye said:

What Really Happened on 16 March 1968? What Lessons Have Been Learned? A Look at the My Lai Incident Fifty Years Later – The Campaign for the National Museum of the United States Army (armyhistory.org)

 

 

I'm convinced! How about you?