Vietnam War Combat Aircraft, Bombers, Helicopters, And Rescue Planes | Rare Exclusive Footage
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A documentary about the role of military aircraft during the Vietnam War, from the F-105 Thundechief to the Boeing B-52 Bomber and the MiG-21
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the North was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the South was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies, making the war a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. military involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries officially becoming communist states by 1976.
After the fall of French Indochina with the 1954 Geneva Conference on 21 July, the country gained independence from France but was divided into two parts: the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam, while the U.S. assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam. The Viet Cong (VC), a South Vietnamese common front under the direction of the north, initiated a guerrilla war in the south. The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in more conventional warfare with the U.S. Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces. North Vietnam invaded Laos in 1958, establishing the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply and reinforce the VC . By 1963, the North had sent 40,000 soldiers to fight in the South U.S. involvement increased under President John F. Kennedy from just under a thousand military advisors in 1959 to 23,000 by 1964.
Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution that gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to increase U.S. military presence in Vietnam, without a formal declaration of war. Johnson ordered the deployment of combat units for the first time and dramatically increased the number of American troops to 184,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. The U.S. also conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam and continued significantly building up its forces, despite little progress being made. In 1968, North Vietnamese forces launched the Tet Offensive. Though it was a tactical defeat for them, it was a strategic victory, as it caused U.S. domestic support for the war to fade. By the end of the year, the VC held little territory and was sidelined by the PAVN. In 1969, North Vietnam declared the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. Operations crossed national borders, and the U.S. bombed North Vietnamese supply routes in Laos and Cambodia. The 1970 deposing of the Cambodian monarch, Norodom Sihanouk, resulted in a PAVN invasion of the country (at the request of the Khmer Rouge), and then a U.S.-ARVN counter-invasion, escalating the Cambodian Civil War. After the election of Richard Nixon in 1969, a policy of "Vietnamization" began, which saw the conflict fought by an expanded ARVN, while U.S. forces withdrew in the face of increasing domestic opposition. U.S. ground forces had largely withdrawn by early 1972, and their operations were limited to air and artillery support, advisors, and materiel shipments. The Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 saw all U.S. forces withdrawn The accords were broken almost immediately, and fighting continued for two more years. Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975, while the 1975 spring offensive saw the Fall of Saigon to the PAVN on 30 April, marking the end of the war. North and South Vietnam were reunited on 2 July the following year.
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Vietnam veteran F4 pilot here. The F4 was a great plane but no one talks about the adverse yah and dihedral effects caused by the aileron and the spoiler. The snap rollaway was hurrendous. Lots of pilots lost their lives due to this.
@Dronescapes
20 күн бұрын
Welcome home
@dawightg9787
3 күн бұрын
First I want to Salute you and Thank you for your service. I do believe that if our Vietnam Phantom pilots had proper equipped phantoms and missiles that where reliable along with rules of engagement that Fighters use today, the ratio would have been overwhelming in our Favor.
I have read a Lot of books regarding the Vietnam War ...Robert Mc Namara ( State Department ) , was Hated by Fighter Pilots !
@wrxgeneration
20 күн бұрын
Vietnam vet and F4 training pilot here. Can confirm that we hated McNamara. He was a dueche nozzle.
@justsailmiamillc2866
19 күн бұрын
Robert McNamara was in the department of defense.
@bradparker9664
19 күн бұрын
Robert S. McNamara was Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, and admitted that the second portion of the Gulf of Tonkin incident did not occur. It was essentially fabricated. He also admitted he might have been a war criminal. I urge anyone with an interest in McNamara to watch the Errol Morris film "The Fog of War," which is an interview with McNamara in the years not long before he died. It's an outstanding film.
@bradparker9664
19 күн бұрын
@@wrxgenerationHe had nothing on that POS Lyndon the Liar.
Anh add cho hỏi .Nước Mỹ đã mất bao nhiêu máy bay các loại trong chiến tranh VN???
great story, the first hand account really puts you in the moment
Stupidity by politicians let Vietnam win
@thanhthuyang9697
10 күн бұрын
Những kẻ xâm lược Mỹ dốt môn lịch sử mới đưa lính Mỹ đến VN..Anh đến trường có học hành 1 cách nghiêm túc k ? Hay anh cũng dốt môn lịch sử?
@samuelgarrod8327
7 күн бұрын
@@thanhthuyang9697Well said. Another disastrous campaign for the world police 😢
What a Great video jammed pack with scientific/aerial physic information!!!!
One small laugh. The spot talking about tankers towing fighters to within gliding distance of there base shows an F-105. In that case gliding distance would be directly overhead of its base. Thurs could do just about everything EXCEPT glide.😊
100 mission tours ! 😮 That's insane. Even raf pilots in ww2 didn't have to fly that many, iirc.
These training videos bring back memories of when i was stationed at HMAS Albatross navy air base many yrs ago in my time off on base i would go to the film room an watch these films 🎥 😀 👌 thanks for the memories ❤❤❤💋💋❤❤😃
Great vide
Mac was on a good day a PEDANTIC schoolboy that knew everything; understanding nothing, “skrowed-up” anything he dabbled at - which amounted to everything but it was always someone else’s fault.
Fu*king BRILLANT!!! Thank you
The phantoms was a great Fighter, the problem in Vietnam was the LBJ administration of BVR ONLY Doctrine but than they made the phantom pilots maneuver the phantoms for Dogfights when they wasn’t trained. However when you did have pilots who could maneuver the phantoms they would become ACEs . Captain Frank Ault did a report on this called the Ault Report, his findings was the missiles failed the majority of the time and pilots wasn’t properly trained. Dan Pedersen armed with this report stated a school to train these phantom pilots called Fighter weapons school or Top Gun now, these phantom pilots would than take the 2:1 ratio to 24:1 with the phantoms by the end of Vietnam. Why this new record is not discussed with the properly trained pilots, Is a mystery..
@MrSimonw58
4 күн бұрын
I flew over 100 sorties with captain frank
@dawightg9787
3 күн бұрын
@@MrSimonw58 I salute you Sir , and Thank You For your Service! What a awesome experience that must have been..
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You are giving a good official history, but ever since I read "About Face" as a 14 year old I've seen through much of the corporate storyline.
@VNExperience
2 күн бұрын
Great book, one of my favorites on the topic. For a different viewpoint, I highly recommend Sally Paine's excellent presentation "Who Lost the Vietnam War" here on KZread, on the US Naval College channel if my memory serves me well. It's an interesting one, shedding light on how the US made strategic long-term decisions on geopolitics, especially regarding China and the USSR. I believe you will find it worthwhile, presuming you are educated on the Vietnam War. 🙂
BS war like many others.
"Valuable lessons were gleamed...". Gimme a break! Since the Vietnam war the 'endless' conflicts have on increased in size, scope and tempo! The purpose: to profit from continual war.