Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the sources say, Cambodia is being pounded by an average of 60 B-52s a day, each carrying up to 20 tons of bombs. One day recently, they say, the United States mounted an attack by 120 of the huge bombers...
...understand the effect of all these bombings on the land and the people of Cambodia, it is enough to consider the destructiveness of the B-52s alone. A B-52 flies at an altitude of 30,000 feet and drops bombs which cover a rectangle a mile and a half long and a half mile wide with flames and flying steel fragments. If there is no overlap, 60 B-52s can thus destroy an area of about 25 square miles in a single mission. The pilots have no idea of what is in their assigned target areas when they bomb...
...reported by most American newspapers, in recent days B-52s have been used in the areas immediately surrounding Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia itself. The number of refugees generated by the bombing has now reached 700,000 in Phnom Penh alone. Senator Edward M. Kennedy has said that some 3 million people have become refugees in Cambodia since the American-sponsored -invasion three years ago. This in a country of slightly over 6 million persons! The number of civilians killed in the last month is not yet known. According to the April 1, 1973 issue of the Washington Post...
...days last week, it looked as if Cambodia might become another South Viet Nam. Communist insurgent forces, armed and led by the North Vietnamese, were besieging the Cambodian capital, Phnom-Penh. U.S. B-52s bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder...
Night after night, hundreds of B-52s and fighter-bombers from Guam and Thailand streaked across Cambodia to drop their enormous loads (up to 3,000 tons every 24 hours), sometimes striking to within 14 miles of the capital. The effectiveness of this massive effort could not be judged, since U.S. announcements have been deliberately vague, and Western journalists are unable to venture far enough from the capital these days to inspect the damaged areas...