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Posted by Shelley Cadamy
The post betrays some ignorance of the bombing of North Vietnam--for instance that many targets could be considered dual purpose--like roads, etc. and that kind of thing exists within populated areas, also "dumb bombs" didn't always end up where intended. Other then that rather nit picky point it is a good informative piece. Here is an article from the period: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843145-1,00.html Here is another on Rolling Thunder: http://books.google.com/books?id=zz_2tspdiYcC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=Vietnam+SAMs+%2B+populated+areas&source=web&ots=Zm7BWVEzzV&sig=zmsApyfKpLEl8ayDUZjVP612aOY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA38,M1
