BOMBINGS ESCALATED. TO THREE TIMES KOREAN WAR’ FIGURE
“The story, apparently "leaked", by the Pentagon, about a "shortage" of bombs in Vietnam may well have. been partly designed as a decoy to help divert attention from a new jump in the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
Thus, instead of having to argue with critics about the wisdom of increasing the rain of bombs on, Vietnam and selecting tergets closer and closer to crowded civilian centers, McNamara had the easy job of proving that. the American air force faces no real _ "shortage" of bombs for its murderous forays.
The civilian: head ‘of the Pentagon tola a press conference April 14 that in March U.S. bombers dropped 50,000 tons of bombs, an increase of 25 per cent over February. This brought the average rate of bombing to three times that used to devastate Korea.
The total "conventional bomb inventory" planned for the calendar year 1966, said this war criminal, is. 648,000 tons.
This is 91 per cent of all the bombs used during the 47 months of the Korean war, McNamara said.
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