I don’t think we ever bombed the capital part of the city either. If I remember accurately, we merely bombed the port area of the capital. Do you remember?
The Dim Congress kept demanding Nixon call a ceasefire. What a bunch of clowns.
They concentrated on military targets and were using the brand new “smart bombs” on bridges and other hard to hit areas. They were also hitting Haiphong hard with bombs and the mines in the ocean had cut sea traffic to nothing. The B 52 drivers had seen massive missle responses the first several days but with no resupply, they had virtually run out of anti aircraft missles and the good guys were flying almost unopposed the last couple of days.