Posted on 03/23/2011 10:32:56 PM PDT by Rabin
Prior to the U.S. air strikes, top officials in Washington had reason to doubt that any Aug. 4 attack by North Vietnam had occurred. Cables from the U.S. task force commander in the Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, referred to “freak weather effects,” “almost total darkness” and an “overeager sonarman” who “was hearing ship’s own propeller beat...
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Sad Rab.
Yea that and greed. LBJ owned Brown and Root shares...hint,,halliburton
LBJ didn't own squat, outside of a hard-on.
Ladybird owned the Brown & Root shares...and she wasn't about to share the proceeds with Lyndon.
Wait. This article pretends that the North Vietnamese were somehow innocent victims. Apparently the authors forgot to mention that the NVA had been supporting the Viet Cong’s campaign of terror against civilians. Sort of puts things in a different light when you mention that the NVA were murderers of South Vietnamese for many years.
Try explaining the big holes in the ships....
True that. USS Princeton made two trips to Vietnam to take in helicopters. In February 1962, we took in a squadron of Army “Flying Banana” Piasecki helicopters. In April 1962, we took in Marine Squadron HMR-362, flying Sikorsky HUS helicopters.
That’s right - I said 1962. AND, after we were relieved by the Valley Forge, we circled Okinawa for rdays, with another squadron (believe it was HMR-361)and a BLT(Reinf) rotating back to the States. The circling was to decide - home or Hanoi. Too bad we came home. We had at least nine carriers, multiple squadrons and a Marine division at the ready.
rdays s/b three days.
So communists don’t lie?
In spite of what folks think of the circumstances, the spread of communism was and is a bad thing and worth fighting.
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