Operation Linebacker II

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @vinylcd3
    @vinylcd3 Год назад +56

    I was a B52 crewchief at Utapao during Linebacker2. It was madness on the flightline. Quick thruflights, fuel, bombs, lox, water and oil, crew change and off again within a hour.

    • @Daz912
      @Daz912 Год назад +7

      Thank you for your service sir

    • @dustygranata5903
      @dustygranata5903 Год назад +5

      Thank you for your service

    • @HungTran-gz5em
      @HungTran-gz5em Год назад +3

      I'm from Vietnam. Considering the massive civilian casualties, you'd have to forgive me if I do not thank you for your services

    • @Daz912
      @Daz912 Год назад +5

      @@HungTran-gz5em who asked?

    • @vinylcd3
      @vinylcd3 Год назад +5

      @@HungTran-gz5em, I have asked for forgivness from several Vietnamese people and friends. I have had nightnares and carry that guilt and told I have PTSD.

  • @dgrif777
    @dgrif777 2 года назад +23

    These mini-docs are awesome. Keep up the great work guys

    • @militavia-air-defense-aircraft
      @militavia-air-defense-aircraft 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/bye1T0x6lpo/видео.html
      2nd episode, Lin II.
      It is worth to check the rest.

    • @charleswest6372
      @charleswest6372 2 года назад

      8000 bombs in 15 minutes? How GD stupid, wasteful. Overkill totally. But Cunt Lemay had to get his hands in it.

  • @joeintx485
    @joeintx485 3 месяца назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this. As a veteran of OIF and OEF I am always honored to learn about our military history.

  • @duartesimoes508
    @duartesimoes508 2 года назад +40

    Linebacker II cannot be explained in five minutes.

    • @Krevin1775
      @Krevin1775 2 года назад +6

      Looks like it was tho

    • @Krevin1775
      @Krevin1775 2 года назад

      I could explain it shorter tbh

    • @militavia-air-defense-aircraft
      @militavia-air-defense-aircraft 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/bye1T0x6lpo/видео.html
      2nd episode, Lin II.
      It is worth to check the rest.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад +1

      @@Krevin1775 ...in one word:" fiasco"

    • @hiepla4974
      @hiepla4974 Год назад +2

      5 seconds : massive civilians massacre !

  • @JayKayKay7
    @JayKayKay7 2 года назад +21

    When asked about the precision of his bombing campaign, a US Air Force General was heard to say,
    "My bombs are 100% accurate. They hit the ground every damn time."

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад +1

      Genial general ! Compliment from Vietnam!😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @Mikey-mike
    @Mikey-mike 9 месяцев назад +5

    I was USN TF 77.7.7
    Linebacker 1&2
    SAR Haiphong

  • @26michaeluk
    @26michaeluk Год назад +14

    If we'd done this from the start, bombing Hanoi and Haiphong, the war could've been won in 2 years.

    • @ReySchultz121
      @ReySchultz121 10 месяцев назад +2

      "But the Chinese would've gotten involved."
      Korea lasted 3 years, this lasted 20, even if the war was a tie, the war ended faster.

    • @ТамараИванова-ж2з
      @ТамараИванова-ж2з 10 месяцев назад +3

      Правительство США хотело полицейскую операцию по защите Юга Вьетнама от Севера. Администрация президента США не хотела победы, она предала собственную армию.

    • @26michaeluk
      @26michaeluk 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@ReySchultz121 excellent point, and one I didn't even consider.

    • @bruhlmao2499
      @bruhlmao2499 8 месяцев назад +2

      R u sure 'bout that ?

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 7 месяцев назад

      No, they would not, China and Russia would have interfered like in Korea.

  • @Lambzalot
    @Lambzalot Год назад +3

    Analytics Comments.
    Found this through a shorts discrimination. Keep up the good work it's also how I found you.

  • @Channel-23s
    @Channel-23s 2 года назад +21

    if it lasted longer the South would’ve won or draw/end in stalemate due to Tet offensive being a failure and formal northern generals saying they were close to losing throughout the war basically 0 land was lost til the withdrawal in the 70s guess it would be like about to finish a race just to end up 3rd or 4th place

    • @mullahgaming9446
      @mullahgaming9446 2 года назад

      dumbest comment of the year so far

    • @M_channel_92
      @M_channel_92 Год назад +6

      The level of destruction of B52s reached 17.6% (34/193 US B52s mobilized in the campaign; America had a total of 400 B52s at that time) - far beyond the acceptable level of the White House, forcing the US to ended the strategic raid and returned to the Paris Conference... Nearly a month later, on January 27, 1973, the Paris Agreement was signed, opening a new stage for the people's cause of national reunification. Vietnamese ethnicity.Only 12 days, the US has suffered a great loss, if it is prolonged, can the US withstand it.

    • @30AndHatingIt
      @30AndHatingIt Год назад

      Reunification was a lie, South Vietnam wanted to be free from oppression like South Korea is today. Instead, the lying gutless bastards waited for us to leave and then brutally conquered their southern neighbor. To hell with the communists.

    • @huongnguyen-ci1yu
      @huongnguyen-ci1yu 11 месяцев назад

      😂 nó không kéo dài lâu vì Mỹ không dám. Người ta ước tính sau 3 tháng tất cả số lượng B52 của Mỹ sẽ tuyệt chủng với tốc độ bắn hạ trong 12 ngày tại Bắc Việt. Việt Nam là nước duy nhất trong lịch sử thế giới đã bắn hạ nhiều máy bay B52 của Mỹ bằng hệ thống phòng không gồm pháo cao xạ và cả tiêm kích.

    • @grandcanyon-d4d
      @grandcanyon-d4d 7 месяцев назад +3

      It was a tactical failure but a strategical win

  • @pagansmc13
    @pagansmc13 6 месяцев назад +5

    frankly linebacker 2 should've started on December 18, 1966...

  • @swordhalk1
    @swordhalk1 2 года назад +11

    8000 bombs in 15 minutes. Thats roughly 9 bombs per second for 15 minutes.

  • @AdurianJ
    @AdurianJ 3 месяца назад +4

    If Linebacker 2 had been done in 1965 the war would have been over in 1965.

    • @alexwright9875
      @alexwright9875 2 месяца назад

      They did operation rolling thunder from 1965-1968, they dropped more bombs in 1 year than entire ww2 Germany and Japan combined, and they was NEVER GONNA WIN

    • @vietnamese80
      @vietnamese80 Месяц назад

      😂😂😂😂
      That is only you or America think so

    • @chetek5
      @chetek5 Месяц назад

      👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

    • @TheodoreBear-c1i
      @TheodoreBear-c1i 28 дней назад

      Rolling Thunder, Laos bombings and all others were equally as massive. And all failed.
      The US lost the war, despite engaging in massive war crimes.

  • @Chrisspoerl
    @Chrisspoerl 2 года назад +1

    Great edit!

  • @LeeLouise-bf7bs
    @LeeLouise-bf7bs 8 месяцев назад

    I got to play in the B52 flight simulator in 1972. I was just playing DOG BONE and wasn't a real pilot, just two year old baby girl. I liked left side pilot and my sister sometimes was my co-pilot on right side in the cockpit.

  • @jeffsena9140
    @jeffsena9140 Месяц назад

    My squadron flew chaff missions in support of B 52s . We flew every night!

  • @quocsonvan530
    @quocsonvan530 8 дней назад

    Vietnamese saw and said. "Time flies"

  • @benjaminmwapenya8165
    @benjaminmwapenya8165 5 месяцев назад +1

    The commentator actually didnt mention vietnam lives lost they didnt even concern him

  • @Apache410
    @Apache410 2 года назад +5

    0:12 Zombie from black ops 1 pops out

  • @dirkbruere
    @dirkbruere Год назад +2

    ARVN M16s for sale - never fired, only dropped once

  • @steve53LY
    @steve53LY Год назад +3

    What was winning? Define winning in Vietnam. What was there to win?

    • @ReySchultz121
      @ReySchultz121 10 месяцев назад

      Since no ground was ever permanently gained or loss, they kept going back to one single metric of success: counting corpses.
      *Body count.*
      Until they reached the _crossover point,_ the point in which more enemy soldiers were being killed than they could replenish.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 6 месяцев назад

      The mission was to avoid a communist takeover of South Vietnam. We failed that. We lost.

    • @khoaibig
      @khoaibig 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ReySchultz121mỹ không tham chiến, họ dùng người Việt Nam đánh người Việt Nam, thương vong cả 2 bên là rất lớn, người mỹ không chết nhiều nhưng những người Việt Nam theo mỹ chết rất nhiều, họ coi đó là chiến thắng, thật buồn cười 😂

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@ReySchultz121 The mission was to protect South Vietnam. This failed.

  • @my_rasjad
    @my_rasjad 6 месяцев назад +2

    15 of B-52s shot down during that operation

  • @mullahgaming9446
    @mullahgaming9446 2 года назад +2

    good old freedom

  • @zhuangsaur227
    @zhuangsaur227 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wait... in Rolling Thunder the SAM sites were initially off limits due to fears Soviets or Chinese technicians and personel helping out at these sites could be killed or hurt so in the case of Linebacker campaigns...​ why didn't the Russians or Chinese send politicians or VIP diplomats to visit Hanoi or Haiphong and make a public announcement on this visit and hence if the US tried to bomb such areas there's political repercussions if the politician or VIP diplomat was killed or hurt...wouldn't that have been trickier to launch a bombing raid and a huge political diplomatic risk???

  • @賴志偉-d7h
    @賴志偉-d7h 10 месяцев назад

    That the US think it is not possible for Vietnam to survive without US help. Rich.

  • @ryansmith1115
    @ryansmith1115 2 года назад +16

    If the US had allowed the troops to take the gloves off and fight without restrictions, we would have won

    • @tonkinthehanoian1843
      @tonkinthehanoian1843 2 года назад

      War is a measure, not a game.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад +3

      Don't brag. Who restricted you in Afghanistan?

    • @ryansmith1115
      @ryansmith1115 2 года назад +1

      @@thuankhong they required our troops to capture too many combatants

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад

      @@ryansmith1115 The US was against the will of the majority of the Vietnamese people, so it could never win against the Vietnamese

    • @timf2279
      @timf2279 Год назад +7

      War has to be total and deliberate. Limited war is a battle for failure.

  • @BASE5NYC
    @BASE5NYC 2 года назад +8

    Can't fk with that American airpower. 🤙🏼🇺🇲

    • @tonkinthehanoian1843
      @tonkinthehanoian1843 2 года назад +11

      You meaning those flying aluminium scraps?

    • @ernestov1777
      @ernestov1777 2 года назад +19

      Italian history major here. I'm laughing so hard at Americans who believe they won this battle. Linebacker II was a utter and disastrous defeat for America. Nixon had to sign the teatry on North Vietnamese terms.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад +12

      You are right. Before LB2 took place, Nixon demanded to change 44 articles in the content of the signed Agreement. He wanted to use Linebacker 2 to force North Vietnam to make concessions, but the fiasco of LB2 forced Nixon must return to the previously agreed conditions.
      Vietnam knew in advance that the US would use B 52 to bomb Hanoi, so it had prepared for it 5 years ago. The Vietnamese army had to endure sacrifice to gain experience and skills to shoot down B 52. ( skill to find B52 in jamming, skill to disable Shrike anti-radar missile)

    • @ernestov1777
      @ernestov1777 Год назад

      @@robertmandain5791 It destroyed absolute nothing. It did immense damage to civilian population and infrastructure, but Nixon plan failed completely. Don't try to rewrite history. It's not gonna work buddy.

    • @robertmandain5791
      @robertmandain5791 Год назад +2

      B-52 bombers destroyed the North vietnamiese SAM and air force, and of course, didn't suffer any significant losses. It is nothing more than propaganda that to present operation linebacker II as an failure. it was an american victory with low casualties.
      Historically, all us air bombing campaign had low losses :
      Linebacker II was a great victory that demonstrated, again, the power of the US air force against soviet air defense.
      North Vietnam had to sign the treaty that nixon wanted and that the north initialy didn't.
      For two year, the North couldn't seize Saigon as the B-52 and the other us plane would have bombed them.
      You studied in anatolia ?
      Because the lies about operation Linebacker II are debunked very easily.

  • @nguyendemo
    @nguyendemo 5 месяцев назад +1

    You may not know:
    With his extensive political experience, as early as December 29, 1967, President Ho Chi Minh told General Phung The Tai, who was then Deputy Chief of the General Staff, a prediction:
    “Sooner or later, the US imperialists will send B-52s to bomb Hanoi and only admit defeat when they lose. You should remember that before coming to Panmunjom to sign the armistice agreement in Korea, the US had its air force destroy Pyongyang. In Vietnam, the US will definitely lose, but it will only admit defeat after losing in the sky of Hanoi” 
    Ho Chi Minh.
    Since May 1972, General Vo Nguyen Giap and the combat staff of the Air Defense Corps have raised the question: "At what rate will the B-52s be shot down that will shake the White House, at what rate will the US not be able to bear it and have to lose?". After several weeks, the answer was given:
    N1 - the rate at which the US can endure is 1-2% (out of the total number of US B-52s participating in the war);
    N2 - the rate at which the White House will be shaken is 6-7%;
    N3 - the rate at which the US will be forced to lose is over 10%.
    If the B-52's loss rate is equal to or exceeds 10%, the US will not be able to endure and will have to stop the campaign, because the B-52 is the most powerful strategic weapon of the US Air Force, operated by carefully selected and trained pilots, if the loss exceeds 10%, it will be difficult for the US to replace it (in addition, many US pilots are given the honor of flying the B-52 because they are descendants of powerful families, if the death rate of these "aristocratic pilots" increases, the US government will be in big trouble). Furthermore, it is necessary to remember that the B-52 was a strategic weapon to deal with the superpower, the Soviet Union, a country with an air defense system dozens of times larger than Vietnam's, and much more modern equipment. If the B-52 suffered more than 10% damage against a country with a small air defense system like Vietnam, it would obviously be a failure for the US. If the campaign continued, the US would no longer have enough B-52 forces to deal with the Soviet Union.
    The Air Defense - Air Force eliminated N1, determined to achieve N2 and reach N3. As a result, in 12 days and nights of fighting in the winter of 1972, the Air Defense - Air Force exceeded the N3 target: the rate of B-52s shot down was 17.6% (34/197 aircraft, of which Hanoi air defense units shot down 23 aircraft). Even with the figures that the US admits (16 B-52s crashed, 4 severely damaged and 5 moderately damaged), it has already exceeded the N3 level.

  • @nvmediausa
    @nvmediausa 2 года назад +2

    Have the outmost confidence in Japan there very meticulous and imaginative in what they produce. Unlike some countries that just copy and rebrand it as their own.

  • @Krevin1775
    @Krevin1775 2 года назад +11

    Good thing we at least learned a lot from Vietnam so we don't repeat those mistakes in like... Afghanistan for example.
    Good video thanjs

    • @11B30Inf
      @11B30Inf 2 года назад

      You can thank your boy, cut and run away Joe Biden! He left many Americans behind in Afghanistan and Taliban now have tens of billions of dollars of assault rifles and military equipment.

    • @Krevin1775
      @Krevin1775 2 года назад +1

      @@11B30Inf yep. And trump made a deal with the taliban and released 5000 taliban prisoners.

    • @duartesimoes508
      @duartesimoes508 2 года назад

      😂😂😂

  • @brightlord-ov7cm
    @brightlord-ov7cm 4 месяца назад +1

    Without the chinese and russian help and equipment vietcong would've been absolutely buckled.

    • @krt1175
      @krt1175 Месяц назад

      Just hide under the halo that you built yourself😂

    • @brightlord-ov7cm
      @brightlord-ov7cm Месяц назад +1

      @krt1175 unlike you, i don't hide from the truth, maybe come outside and touch some grass sometimes, also allow yourself time to learn not to be brainwashed so much kid.

    • @brightlord-ov7cm
      @brightlord-ov7cm Месяц назад +1

      @@krt1175 you sound like you read a fantasy novel there.

  • @transistorcito
    @transistorcito 8 месяцев назад

    Cuantas toneladas de "democracia" exportaron a Vietnam?

    • @NhatVinhLe-lm5jh
      @NhatVinhLe-lm5jh 4 месяца назад

      Mỹ thả xuống Việt nam khoảng 15 triệu tấn bom và đạn pháo xuống Việt nam .

  • @TaeJindo-n6d
    @TaeJindo-n6d Месяц назад

    Thailand best Uta Pao airbase for B52 operation linbacker . . 😎🐼🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭

  • @sb859
    @sb859 2 года назад +10

    North Vietnamese: "What if we just delay the peace talks?"
    Nixon: "Fu@# around and find out!"

    • @ernestov1777
      @ernestov1777 2 года назад

      Trying to rewrite history huh? Operation Linebacker II was a North Vietnamese victory. American bombers were shut down.

    • @havu-oj4qh
      @havu-oj4qh Год назад +1

      The Vietnam War was the most humiliating defeat of the Yanks in their history

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe Год назад

      OK, we will pretend to be forced and give you a b.s. escape plan.

    • @vinhlong7347
      @vinhlong7347 Год назад

      Nixon and Kissinger was ones who delayed peace talk, he want the Vietcong to be disbanded but ended Linebacker with 12% of US Air Force B-52 lost and still agreed to recognize the Vietcong as a legitimate government in Southern Vietnam

    • @HungTran-gz5em
      @HungTran-gz5em Год назад +7

      Incorrect. The Vietnamese delays were because the US tried to force terrible terms to the agreement. After the bombing failed, the old terms were reset and signed. The strategic goal of this campaign failed

  • @nguyendemo
    @nguyendemo 5 месяцев назад

    General Vo Nguyen Giap asserted that the US side left the meeting first and that it was the US side that proposed the meeting again in a telegram sent on December 22 (1 day after 7 B-52s were shot down in just one night).
    In the later declassified recording of the conversation between US President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Nixon made it clear that he had decided to abandon the "child" of the Republic of Vietnam in order to escape the war in Vietnam.
    Henry Kissinger: I think Thieu was right. That agreement (the Paris Agreement) would put the Republic of Vietnam in danger.
    Richard Nixon: It (the Republic of Vietnam) has to fend for itself... If it dies, let it die. It's grown up, we can't keep feeding it forever
    According to Henry Kissinger's memoir, on January 6, 1973, Nixon instructed Kissinger to return to Paris and reach a solution no matter what conditions the other side offered, with "a completely different appearance than usual" (meaning no longer showing the upper hand). The US President emphasized his readiness to accept the return of the text agreed upon in October 1972. Thus, the Paris Agreement was signed with content that was essentially not much different from the initialed version before the negotiations stalled due to the US's refusal to sign. The US lost dozens of aircraft and still had to sign a document that they did not want to sign, which meant that the US's key objective in conducting Operation Linebacker II had failed.

  • @The_half_danish-sr8ys
    @The_half_danish-sr8ys 4 месяца назад

    all vietnamese soldiers who served in anti-aircraft gun a big round of applause for services in vetname war

  • @gamaigia9270
    @gamaigia9270 2 года назад +11

    Linebacker Ii Is crime against humanity.

    • @thuankhong
      @thuankhong 2 года назад +2

      But result of the war was the same :US puppets in Saigon were defeated,

    • @tmoney007confederation7
      @tmoney007confederation7 Год назад

      Punjie pit boobytraps are WARCRIME too, because used poison or biological toxicity to create used all by NVA and Viet-Cong... SHUT UP! Stagetic Bombing is definitely ugly but not technically a WARCRIME now using AGENT ORANGE is WARCRIME that created more casualties in Vietnam War than anything.

    • @bantumwt
      @bantumwt 9 месяцев назад

      Communism is a crime against humanity.

    • @yamatomushashi5583
      @yamatomushashi5583 7 месяцев назад +2

      Linebacker II actually forced North Vietnam back to the negotiating table.

    • @bantumwt
      @bantumwt 6 месяцев назад

      @@1boxcar4yu Vietnam can only be truly understood when it is considered in the context of the Cold War. For the Vietnamese, the main goal was national unification and not as much for the spread of Communism. For the US, it was part of a worldwide struggle against Communism. For Vietnam, it was a national struggle that had gone on for more than 20 years.

  • @김범석-x8v
    @김범석-x8v 2 года назад

    왜불러형

  • @김범석-x8v
    @김범석-x8v 2 года назад

    진지구축 잘햇는데요 1번봐준다 울형 왜불럿지

  • @kawaiiVietCong
    @kawaiiVietCong 9 месяцев назад +2

    My blood fucking boiled when he said North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam

    • @jorai69
      @jorai69 8 месяцев назад +2

      It’s true. After the Tet Offense, no one wanted the Vietcong presence in the South no more. Should have respect the will of the people.

    • @nguyenthuong3574
      @nguyenthuong3574 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@jorai69 people want the country to reunite

    • @user-hr6nw9il2t
      @user-hr6nw9il2t 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@jorai69 You don't want the Vietnamese presence in Viet Nam?

    • @khoaibig
      @khoaibig 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@jorai69Is that what the US government propagates to you? Do you know that currently the people in South Vietnam are honored to oppose America more than the number in the North

    • @sangdinh3029
      @sangdinh3029 Месяц назад

      Tao ở miền nam việt nam đây,tôn trọng cái con mẹ mày

  • @Gamingpro11_VN
    @Gamingpro11_VN 2 года назад

    "this is a best war because i was won them >:D"
    -grandpa

  • @Woysla
    @Woysla 2 года назад +3

    We should show the force of US air power against Russia

    • @bshiesty_9917
      @bshiesty_9917 2 года назад +6

      air power doesn’t beat the end of the world via nuclear war

    • @bshiesty_9917
      @bshiesty_9917 2 года назад

      why should we risk nuclear war and the lives of our citizens over the second most corrupt country in europe being invaded by the 1st

    • @tonkinthehanoian1843
      @tonkinthehanoian1843 2 года назад +1

      What makes you think bullets can make an empire surrender?

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 2 года назад

      @@tonkinthehanoian1843 Wouldn't be bullets this time. The B-52 was built for *nukes* and that's what those big birds would be carrying in any war with Russia (also something they were built for, ironically).

    • @tonkinthehanoian1843
      @tonkinthehanoian1843 2 года назад

      @@stephenwright8824 I meant by violence. Of course that would work somehow but nuclear war isn't a profitable move.

  • @SFsc616171
    @SFsc616171 2 года назад +2

    very apropriate timing!!
    "resident 12 Day Air War, U-Tapao RTNAF, 1971 - 1974"!!