I was a B52 crewchief at Utapao during Linebacker2. It was madness on the flightline. Quick thruflights, fuel, bombs, lox, water and oil, crew change and off again within a hour.

@Whiteyy191

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service sir

@dustygranata5903

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service

@HungTran-gz5em

6 ай бұрын

I'm from Vietnam. Considering the massive civilian casualties, you'd have to forgive me if I do not thank you for your services

@Whiteyy191

6 ай бұрын

@@HungTran-gz5em who asked?

@vinylcd3

6 ай бұрын

@@HungTran-gz5em, I have asked for forgivness from several Vietnamese people and friends. I have had nightnares and carry that guilt and told I have PTSD.

These mini-docs are awesome. Keep up the great work guys

@militavia-air-defense-aircraft

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lK2Zk7ZpqJnSoNI.html 2nd episode, Lin II. It is worth to check the rest.

@charleswest6372

Жыл бұрын

8000 bombs in 15 minutes? How GD stupid, wasteful. Overkill totally. But Cunt Lemay had to get his hands in it.

Linebacker II cannot be explained in five minutes.

@Krevin1775

Жыл бұрын

Looks like it was tho

@Krevin1775

Жыл бұрын

I could explain it shorter tbh

@militavia-air-defense-aircraft

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lK2Zk7ZpqJnSoNI.html 2nd episode, Lin II. It is worth to check the rest.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

@@Krevin1775 ...in one word:" fiasco"

@hiepla4974

Жыл бұрын

5 seconds : massive civilians massacre !

8000 bombs in 15 minutes. Thats roughly 9 bombs per second for 15 minutes.

When asked about the precision of his bombing campaign, a US Air Force General was heard to say, "My bombs are 100% accurate. They hit the ground every damn time."

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Genial general ! Compliment from Vietnam!😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

If we'd done this from the start, bombing Hanoi and Haiphong, the war could've been won in 2 years.

@ReySchultz121

3 ай бұрын

"But the Chinese would've gotten involved." Korea lasted 3 years, this lasted 20, even if the war was a tie, the war ended faster.

@user-fe5bs1up4y

3 ай бұрын

Правительство США хотело полицейскую операцию по защите Юга Вьетнама от Севера. Администрация президента США не хотела победы, она предала собственную армию.

@26michaeluk

3 ай бұрын

@@ReySchultz121 excellent point, and one I didn't even consider.

@bruhlmao2499

Ай бұрын

R u sure 'bout that ?

@user-td2jw9ze2c

Ай бұрын

No, they would not, China and Russia would have interfered like in Korea.

I was USN TF 77.7.7 Linebacker 1&2 SAR Haiphong

Analytics Comments. Found this through a shorts discrimination. Keep up the good work it's also how I found you.

if it lasted longer the South would’ve won or draw/end in stalemate due to Tet offensive being a failure and formal northern generals saying they were close to losing throughout the war basically 0 land was lost til the withdrawal in the 70s guess it would be like about to finish a race just to end up 3rd or 4th place

@mullahgaming9446

Жыл бұрын

dumbest comment of the year so far

@M_channel_92

11 ай бұрын

The level of destruction of B52s reached 17.6% (34/193 US B52s mobilized in the campaign; America had a total of 400 B52s at that time) - far beyond the acceptable level of the White House, forcing the US to ended the strategic raid and returned to the Paris Conference... Nearly a month later, on January 27, 1973, the Paris Agreement was signed, opening a new stage for the people's cause of national reunification. Vietnamese ethnicity.Only 12 days, the US has suffered a great loss, if it is prolonged, can the US withstand it.

@30AndHatingIt

5 ай бұрын

Reunification was a lie, South Vietnam wanted to be free from oppression like South Korea is today. Instead, the lying gutless bastards waited for us to leave and then brutally conquered their southern neighbor. To hell with the communists.

@huongnguyen-ci1yu

4 ай бұрын

😂 nó không kéo dài lâu vì Mỹ không dám. Người ta ước tính sau 3 tháng tất cả số lượng B52 của Mỹ sẽ tuyệt chủng với tốc độ bắn hạ trong 12 ngày tại Bắc Việt. Việt Nam là nước duy nhất trong lịch sử thế giới đã bắn hạ nhiều máy bay B52 của Mỹ bằng hệ thống phòng không gồm pháo cao xạ và cả tiêm kích.

@user-td2jw9ze2c

Ай бұрын

It was a tactical failure but a strategical win

I got to play in the B52 flight simulator in 1972. I was just playing DOG BONE and wasn't a real pilot, just two year old baby girl. I liked left side pilot and my sister sometimes was my co-pilot on right side in the cockpit.

Great edit!

0:12 Zombie from black ops 1 pops out

@yaboidspdadon5838

9 күн бұрын

Thats crazy even the sound 😂

ARVN M16s for sale - never fired, only dropped once

good old freedom

@Channel-23s

Жыл бұрын

Or rather close to it

Wait... in Rolling Thunder the SAM sites were initially off limits due to fears Soviets or Chinese technicians and personel helping out at these sites could be killed or hurt so in the case of Linebacker campaigns...​ why didn't the Russians or Chinese send politicians or VIP diplomats to visit Hanoi or Haiphong and make a public announcement on this visit and hence if the US tried to bomb such areas there's political repercussions if the politician or VIP diplomat was killed or hurt...wouldn't that have been trickier to launch a bombing raid and a huge political diplomatic risk???

What was winning? Define winning in Vietnam. What was there to win?

@ReySchultz121

3 ай бұрын

Since no ground was ever permanently gained or loss, they kept going back to one single metric of success: counting corpses. *Body count.* Until they reached the _crossover point,_ the point in which more enemy soldiers were being killed than they could replenish.

That the US think it is not possible for Vietnam to survive without US help. Rich.

Can't fk with that American airpower. 🤙🏼🇺🇲

@tonkinthehanoian1843

Жыл бұрын

You meaning those flying aluminium scraps?

@ernestov1777

Жыл бұрын

Italian history major here. I'm laughing so hard at Americans who believe they won this battle. Linebacker II was a utter and disastrous defeat for America. Nixon had to sign the teatry on North Vietnamese terms.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

You are right. Before LB2 took place, Nixon demanded to change 44 articles in the content of the signed Agreement. He wanted to use Linebacker 2 to force North Vietnam to make concessions, but the fiasco of LB2 forced Nixon must return to the previously agreed conditions. Vietnam knew in advance that the US would use B 52 to bomb Hanoi, so it had prepared for it 5 years ago. The Vietnamese army had to endure sacrifice to gain experience and skills to shoot down B 52. ( skill to find B52 in jamming, skill to disable Shrike anti-radar missile)

@ernestov1777

Жыл бұрын

@@robertmandain5791 It destroyed absolute nothing. It did immense damage to civilian population and infrastructure, but Nixon plan failed completely. Don't try to rewrite history. It's not gonna work buddy.

@robertmandain5791

Жыл бұрын

B-52 bombers destroyed the North vietnamiese SAM and air force, and of course, didn't suffer any significant losses. It is nothing more than propaganda that to present operation linebacker II as an failure. it was an american victory with low casualties. Historically, all us air bombing campaign had low losses : Linebacker II was a great victory that demonstrated, again, the power of the US air force against soviet air defense. North Vietnam had to sign the treaty that nixon wanted and that the north initialy didn't. For two year, the North couldn't seize Saigon as the B-52 and the other us plane would have bombed them. You studied in anatolia ? Because the lies about operation Linebacker II are debunked very easily.

Have the outmost confidence in Japan there very meticulous and imaginative in what they produce. Unlike some countries that just copy and rebrand it as their own.

Cuantas toneladas de "democracia" exportaron a Vietnam?

If the US had allowed the troops to take the gloves off and fight without restrictions, we would have won

@tonkinthehanoian1843

Жыл бұрын

War is a measure, not a game.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Don't brag. Who restricted you in Afghanistan?

@ryansmith1115

Жыл бұрын

@@thuankhong they required our troops to capture too many combatants

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

@@ryansmith1115 The US was against the will of the majority of the Vietnamese people, so it could never win against the Vietnamese

@timf2279

Жыл бұрын

War has to be total and deliberate. Limited war is a battle for failure.

Good thing we at least learned a lot from Vietnam so we don't repeat those mistakes in like... Afghanistan for example. Good video thanjs

@11B30Inf

Жыл бұрын

You can thank your boy, cut and run away Joe Biden! He left many Americans behind in Afghanistan and Taliban now have tens of billions of dollars of assault rifles and military equipment.

@Krevin1775

Жыл бұрын

@@11B30Inf yep. And trump made a deal with the taliban and released 5000 taliban prisoners.

@duartesimoes508

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

North Vietnamese: "What if we just delay the peace talks?" Nixon: "Fu@# around and find out!"

@ernestov1777

Жыл бұрын

Trying to rewrite history huh? Operation Linebacker II was a North Vietnamese victory. American bombers were shut down.

@havu-oj4qh

Жыл бұрын

The Vietnam War was the most humiliating defeat of the Yanks in their history

@SandfordSmythe

Жыл бұрын

OK, we will pretend to be forced and give you a b.s. escape plan.

@vinhlong7347

9 ай бұрын

Nixon and Kissinger was ones who delayed peace talk, he want the Vietcong to be disbanded but ended Linebacker with 12% of US Air Force B-52 lost and still agreed to recognize the Vietcong as a legitimate government in Southern Vietnam

@HungTran-gz5em

6 ай бұрын

Incorrect. The Vietnamese delays were because the US tried to force terrible terms to the agreement. After the bombing failed, the old terms were reset and signed. The strategic goal of this campaign failed

왜불러형

진지구축 잘햇는데요 1번봐준다 울형 왜불럿지

"this is a best war because i was won them >:D" -grandpa

@tonkinthehanoian1843

Жыл бұрын

No war was better.

My blood fucking boiled when he said North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam

@jorai69

Ай бұрын

It’s true. After the Tet Offense, no one wanted the Vietcong presence in the South no more. Should have respect the will of the people.

@nguyenthuong3574

18 күн бұрын

​@@jorai69 people want the country to reunite

@user-hr6nw9il2t

13 күн бұрын

​@@jorai69 You don't want the Vietnamese presence in Viet Nam?

We should show the force of US air power against Russia

@bshiesty_9917

Жыл бұрын

air power doesn’t beat the end of the world via nuclear war

@bshiesty_9917

Жыл бұрын

why should we risk nuclear war and the lives of our citizens over the second most corrupt country in europe being invaded by the 1st

@tonkinthehanoian1843

Жыл бұрын

What makes you think bullets can make an empire surrender?

@stephenwright8824

Жыл бұрын

@@tonkinthehanoian1843 Wouldn't be bullets this time. The B-52 was built for *nukes* and that's what those big birds would be carrying in any war with Russia (also something they were built for, ironically).

@tonkinthehanoian1843

Жыл бұрын

@@stephenwright8824 I meant by violence. Of course that would work somehow but nuclear war isn't a profitable move.

Linebacker Ii Is crime against humanity.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

But result of the war was the same :US puppets in Saigon were defeated,

@tmoney007confederation7

10 ай бұрын

Punjie pit boobytraps are WARCRIME too, because used poison or biological toxicity to create used all by NVA and Viet-Cong... SHUT UP! Stagetic Bombing is definitely ugly but not technically a WARCRIME now using AGENT ORANGE is WARCRIME that created more casualties in Vietnam War than anything.

@bantumwt

2 ай бұрын

Communism is a crime against humanity.

@yamatomushashi5583

28 күн бұрын

Linebacker II actually forced North Vietnam back to the negotiating table.

@1radar

21 сағат бұрын

Perhaps the south were defeated, the cost to the north was very very high. Without the help from Russia and China, the north would have quit back in the 60's. There were large areas of the north that looked like a moon scape. But communist didn't care enough about the people, so they became expendable by the hundreds of thousands. The US lost about 58 thousand, even with the kill ratio Perhaps 100 to 1, the US left because there was actually nothing there worth continuing the fight for. Sure there could have been several more linebacker type missions killing almost every one left in the north. That was never the point, the point was to stop the spread of communism. Hindsight says it was not worth it for that little country.

very apropriate timing!! "resident 12 Day Air War, U-Tapao RTNAF, 1971 - 1974"!!

@militavia-air-defense-aircraft

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lK2Zk7ZpqJnSoNI.html 2nd episode, Lin II. It is worth to check the rest.