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Bach Mai hospital was a 950-bed facility in Hanoi. It was destroyed by bombs from American B-52s in December...
...generations of the 20th century, most of us are ashamed of the war just ended, and of America's role in it. That was not America, we tell ourselves, that carpet-bombed North Vietnam to cow its "enemies" into a settlement; nor was it America that sent B-52s thundering deep into Laos and Cambodia three days after its envoys signed a peace agreement with the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front. No, this was one man who embodies a perverse diplomacy built up in Washington war-rooms over a decade. Our generation has still to face...
...this subject, which had purposely been left vague in the nine-point agreement announced by Kissinger in October. Now, on orders from Nixon, Kissinger told Tho that the U.S. simply would not stand for protracted haggling on this point. The implication was that Nixon might turn the B-52s loose on Hanoi again...
...military bent over backward to explain Heck's actions. Some Pentagon staffers suggested that he might be suffering from combat fatigue. A senior Air Force officer implied that the heavy losses of B-52s during the strikes had finally frightened him. "There's some sympathy for that guy Heck," the officer allowed. "He was flying into the hairiest area of the world." But Heck himself said that fear had nothing to do with his decision. "If they tell me now to go on milk runs, the B-52 targets over South Viet Nam where nobody gets shot...
...deploring the U.S. air attacks on Hanoi and Haiphong-a form of protest that, as Secretary of State for External Affairs Mitchell Sharp acknowledged, "we rarely use." Nor did Nixon expect the bombing to be so costly in American lives and planes; by week's end 16 B-52s had been lost and 98 airmen killed, captured or missing...