North Viet Nam: Bombs Away

Retired General Curtis LeMay peered through his bombsight and let loose with a blockbuster. Target: the U.S. air war over North Viet Nam. "We're hitting the wrong targets," said the former Air Force Chief of Staff last week in Washington. "We're getting people killed who shouldn't be killed because of too little and too late." The U.S. attacks, LeMay remarked, "should have knocked hell out of 'em—so we must be hitting the wrong targets. We should bomb the things that really would hurt them, industry, ports, power plants. We've been pecking around...

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