The Ho Chi Minh Trail is covered by tropical rain forest; itโs 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
The ability of the Vietnamese to rebuild the routes after bombing was remarkable.
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.
The Misty's were truly crusaders. They should be given more credit for their sacrifices.
This was quite Excellent! Thank you!
These stories really make me irate and disgusted at our governmentโs ineptitude during that war. Proud US Navy vet here. ๐บ๐ธโ๐ป
Gadfly here ๐ง. Lordyโฆyou are bringing back memories. Conflicted though they be.
My papa flew in misty! Richard Meyer! I love you papa Iโm so proud youโre my grand father!!
We had a Jolly Green on our ship that picked up two flyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1973
42:53 "thats life I guess..." Damn
great documentary
Misty Gentlemen, thank you, in my heart, wherever you are ๐
Thank you.
These are compelling stories from Misty pilotsโ missions during the Vietnam War. ๐
It was a quait excellent information documentary about mesty aviation operations over infamous Ho chii minh trail supporter line missions through Laos ๐ฑ๐ฆ and Cambodian ๐ฐ๐ญ jungle borders with south Vietnam ๐ป๐ณ...during Vietnam wars
How was it top secret? I'm pretty sure everyone on the ground knew all about it. "Oh, look Martha, here come the bombs." "Again? The Nguyens got bombed just yesterday. And Tui still had my casserole dish."
๐ช๐๐๏ธ๐๐ค Thank you for sharing this
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.
True men, true heroes. I wish the politicians hadn't failed us, but then we wouldn't have these heroes....all of them.
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