Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Top Secret Bombing Of North Vietnamese Supply Lines
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos, nearly equal to the 2.1 million tons of bombs the U.S. dropped on Europe and Asia during all of World War II, making Laos the most heavily bombed country in history relative to the size of its population.
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail is covered by tropical rain forest; it’s very wet, dense, and filled with many dangerous things like poisonous snakes, bugs, leeches, and the most dangerous of all: mosquitoes. Most Vietnamese who died on the Ho Chi Minh Trail succumbed to malaria
Great appreciation for the creators of this video, chronicling, personalizing, and preserving these Misty men's stories, our history 🙏🕊
The ability of the Vietnamese to rebuild the routes after bombing was remarkable.
Not at all. So many miles of trails.
I guess it was pretty fast to re-route traffic , and repair basic roads. NO dis on the misty men , just one of many reasons why MORE Light Infantry could have changed things.
I was in school while this was going never new of the extreme danger these young men were in at that time.only now as a senior citizen do I recognize the guts this took for this group to perform this service.and of course news media never covered this,mostly it was the protest at home about the war.
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Perhaps you are an American then. Because medias in Viet Nam covered the hardships on the trail in clear details
This was quite Excellent! Thank you!
27 May 1964 LBJ talked Vietnam with Senator Richard Russell. They concluded that any attempt at victory would mean a general war with China. They also concluded that bombing supply lines would fail because it had failed in Korea. The men in this video were knowing dent on a fool's errand by LBJ.
Gadfly here 😧. Lordy…you are bringing back memories. Conflicted though they be.
Did you fly for misty?
@@Gloocar gadfly here🫣. Oh no, I didn’t fly jet planes. I was in the jungle underneath the
@@Gloocar gadfly here. Got I interrupted, meant to tell you I know what “danger close” feels like😵💫
@@Air-bear that is awful you had to learn what that felt like, thank you for your service Gadfly!! We owe you the utmost respect and honor for what you kids did then. Can't imagine being there myself at 24 let alone get drafted at 18 like my friend at work did!
@@Air-bear Welcome home. I wish you and your family well.
In 1959 my grandfather(then a warrant officer Seabees) was the team leader of the first Zorro team inserted into Laos to scout out HCM trail junctions, bridges and the like in Cambodia, Laos. They operated as civilians, all military connections were wiped clear. It is brought up in the book "Building the Bases".
What was he doing in a neutral Country, in civilian clothes 😮
42:53 "thats life I guess..." Damn
great documentary
Misty Gentlemen, thank you, in my heart, wherever you are 🕊
Thank you.
How much money did the munitions manufacturers make frm these rediculous bombing sorties especially over Laos .. so disgraceful
Well, they gotta make money somehow. Diamond studded swimming pools don't grow on trees you know!
So I guess it is better to allow Russia to take over another country?
All the money
💪🏆🎖️🙏🤗
Thank you for sharing this
LBJ WAS A COWARD
We had a Jolly Green on our ship that picked up two flyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1973
These are compelling stories from Misty pilots’ missions during the Vietnam War. 🎉
All that energy, lost of life, cost of the war machine all for nothing
Thanks to your politicians. Oh, and what party were they?
Misty 11.......master 01
That was a very intense & moving story.
It was a quait excellent information documentary about mesty aviation operations over infamous Ho chii minh trail supporter line missions through Laos 🇱🇦 and Cambodian 🇰🇭 jungle borders with south Vietnam 🇻🇳...during Vietnam wars
"Misty 11"
"Master zero 1"
Tht hit different
Personally I went and pooped....
Spooky AC130 AT NIGHT
I was a Tunnel Rat I LOVE MY FLAG.
Do you love your country?
@@buzz5969 BE REAL
@@nickmad887 For All I know you could be referencing a rainbow colored flag amigo. There are many different FlAGs out there.
Why go to war with no plan to invade the north while trying to fig guerrilla fighters moving from the north to the south in 3 different countries
Politics
When congress knows better how to win a war than the military
@@robertheinkel6225 facts I'm convinced we are afraid to win after korea,Vietnam and seeing the fear of escalation with russia now it's like we dont want to win just make forever wars
True men, true heroes. I wish
the politicians hadn't failed us, but then we wouldn't have these heroes....all of them.
who is red tag?
what are you talking about?
But they still got the stuff through. With that amount of "accurate" bombs they threw on that trail, it should have been easy. And they supposedly had that great intelligence... US still lost
Lol war ain't easy bud but that's okay your from Minnesota explains a lot.
@@tacticalspoon4506 And there is the intelligence.
Vietnam: ha ha ha Cambodia your useless now
Cambodia oh really
Cambodia_Polpot:ho ho ho ha he he you thought so
Dinky Dow
vietnam helped to overthrow pol pot
Found a polpot sympathizer
Vietnam 1979: now hold still
Cambodia 1979: yes sir
TY misty gentlemen. In hindsight it looks like a Light Infantry war , sorry the lessons of the "Malayian Emergency" in anti-communist guerilla warfare were not remembered in Viet Nam.
The Americans were not interested in all the experience and knowledge of the French, the British or the Ausis, they knew better 😢
Những kẻ giết người máu lạnh
✨🏴✨🥰✨👍✨♥️✨🤗✨.
A lot of NVA drivers were women, driving through jungle with no lights
Misty lost and they still mad about it
No matter what this documentary tells you, the whole war was fought out of Laos by the CIA
The deeper it was fought over heroin distribution not over the spread of communism
ill say anticommunism had a big part on it, the drugs where just for profit, the CIA way
AIR AMERICA .. you see Americans dont even know about America , in fact Americans know nothing about nothing
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Ho Chi Mihn trail was a red herring. The supply line was on the coast ran by the fisherman.
Not true. There definitely was a trail going thru Loas and Cambodia which the U.S nicknamed the Ho Chi Min trail but the Vietnamese used the river and coast as well. The used any way they could to get men and material south
It wasn't a trail it was a highway brother
@@goldfinger-ub3fl eventually it was basically a highway. It started out as dirt trails
"to probe our theories" nice way to say they were bombarding civilians without mercy
Most heroic keyboard warrior....
You misinterpreted his words.
And? I fail to see the problem. They hid behind and among the populace and so it's all fair game.
@@smellygoatacres facts!
And now they have ptsd and are seen as victims and war hero's 😂
Great information.
Best option:
Please follow Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior 🙏🙏🙏.
Pretty sure that doesn't help extinguish napalm.
@@takeohtyme Never underestimate the power of thoughts and prayers! :P
Baby Jesus let a pedo KILL my little baby and 30 free range hens then he let a drunk driver KILL my new girlfriend at Christmas in 2020 sadly.
@@takeohtymeMaybe not, but you'll definitely be saved for free
Memories, war is what happens when evil goes insane.à
Still lost the war
Paris Peace Accords.
NO....A Peace Treaty was signed in France early 73 , South Vietnam lost the war.
The US Government lost it NOT the US air force or other ! Same as the mess in Afghanistan sadly.
We haven’t won a war since ww2
@@jafo766 you can never accept you lost & got your sorry arses whooped & you were kicked out of there
Did you know...Major Donald " DuckyBonespurs" Trump flew 100 combat missions in Stormy Daniels?
Great videos - but the first 10 minutes can't help me think we're repeating the same mistakes with not hitting Russian air/anti air assets in Russia and making the same damn mistakes asking Ukraine to fight with one arm tied behind their back. We got North Korean/Iranian missiles being fired into Ukraine... So why can't Ukraine do the same thing? The line has already been crossed.