More history from the Vietnam War

This video portrays the operations of the Ninth Infantry Division operating with our Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam. It also shows some of the boats used during these operations, as well as barges.

Wahbooz said:

This video portrays the operations of the Ninth Infantry Division operating with our Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam. It also shows some of the boats used during these operations, as well as barges.

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Right-Wing Race Traitors

All that blood and treasure wasted on cowardly, incompetent, corrupt, and worthless South Vietnamese parasites. That is the forbidden logical explanation for the war's failure, rejected by both hawks and doves.

The Sage of Main Street said:

Right-Wing Race Traitors

All that blood and treasure wasted on cowardly, incompetent, corrupt, and worthless South Vietnamese parasites. That is the forbidden logical explanation for the war's failure, rejected by both hawks and doves.

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It's unfair to paint the S. Vietnamese as parasites with a broad brush. Let's face it, Vietnam was their country, and the French, Japanese, and then we, chose to split it up, and take a piece of the action.

Roosevelt promised to assist the Vietnamese people in returning their country to independence, and Truman broke that promise and aided the French return. I don't blame a lot of the Vietnamese for not entering the way and fighting their own people.

The war was wrong, and we were lied into it by Johnson and McNamara. and by the way, you should also understand that much of what the Viet Cong, and the North Vietnamese, were accused of was actually perpetrated by the CIA with the Phoenix Program.

And what few people know is that the Tonkin Gulf Incident was perpetrated by Operation 34A, or commonly referred to as Oplan 34A. Col. Edward Lansdale was sent to Vietnam in 1950 to set up the covert operation. Originally sampans were used as incursion vehicles into North Vietnam to incite the North. Later, because sampans were too slow, Nasty boats were procured from Sweden to operate as transportation. These boats entered North Vietnam on two nights, and hit military targets. The attack on the USS Maddox was a partial fabrication. The nasty boats used the Maddox as cover for their escape, as the North Vietnamese patrol boats took chase. The sound of the patrol boats was erroneously reported, by an inexperienced sonarman, as a torpedo attack on the destroyer. Johnson grabbed the incident to use as evidence for a justified invasion.

Shells on the deck? From torpedoes?