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This was the frustration that made lyndon johnsons fingernails sweat. >> b-52 bombers made attacks at casson. >> unup in the northern western corner of south veem. >> 6,000 american marines and 500 south veet namtz rangers are surrounded by 40,000 communist troops. >> and general west moreland says this is great, the culminating battle we wanted. >> johnson is very worried that the outcome of this bolts could change the outcome of the war. >> the eyes of the nation and of all history itself are ...

Give him a place in history. >> in terms of civil rights, no tree in the forest is as tall except lyndon johnson. >> if ever there was a nation capable of solving its problems, it is this nation. >> johnson had to be the best. he just was driven by this idea to be top dog. thats also how he felt about vietnam. >> since i reported to you last january, the enemy has been defeated in battle after battle. >> he knew all of that would make him a candidate for some future at mt. rushmore. but he also ...

Vietnam p. he was a pioneer in what we call today counter insurgency. his belief is you would never defeat an insurgency with bombs and bullets. you have to beat it politically. you have to over the people a better alternative to what inturjents are offering. unfortunately his advice was ignored in vietnam. where moreland and the american military high command thought they could bomb the viet cong into oblivion. now i think you see what they dealt with in the 1950s and 1960s where you see corrup...

German aircraft that allied late in the war. >> landing in britain, i think to be seen at various british airports. >> jon: americans built bombers, the heaviest flying machine of its day. boeing built nearly 3,000 of these behemoths at its plant in wichita, kansas, incorporating the latest technology such as guns fired by remote control. its owns the pacific theater dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki, which brought japan to surrender. its no stretch to say that absent the devel...

>> b-29 landing in britain, i think to be seen at various >> jon: americans built bombers, the heaviest flying machine of its day. boeing built nearly 3,000 of these behemoths at its plant in wichita, kansas, incorporating the latest technology such as guns fired by remote control. b-29s owned the pacific theater dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki, which brought japan to surrender.c its no stretch to say that absent the development of this superb american airplane, world war ii ...

Heres a guy who had an atrocious experience here in prison and yet he has been among the most vocal supporters of normalizing relations. >> tao: it took several trips to vietnam. and so he could see vietnam in a different light. its no longer a war. its a country with people. >> anthony: have you been out with returning veterans from -- >> tao: oh, yes. all the time. >> anthony: did they often want to go to the area that they served? >> tao: oh, yes. >> anthony: did they often even meet with the...

Of ow former fleet. the planes are old enough to have been flown by the grandfathers of todays pilots, and their official name, the strattofortress, just sounds like the heady era of their birth and american military supremacy. now they are at work in americas longest war, part of the pentagons belief that fighting from 20,000 feet will save the lives of american fighters on the ground. and about how the name of the b-52s means different things, entirely different things to different generations...

The mere sound of the alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally delivered death and terror from the sky several hundred pounds at a time. there it is. eight engines in all under those wings. unbeknownst to a lot of folks, b-52 bombers have returned t...

There it is. the last thing before we go tonight. its a name from the past that may conjure many things, including nothing, largely depending on your age and your consumption of history. the mere sound of the alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally...

Alpha-numeric combination b-52 means something very powerful to folks who were around during the vietnam war. the b-52 was the military pride. cold war era. a heavy lift high altitude long-distance bomber that brought us the appropriately named rolling thunder bombing campaign and generally delivered death and terror from the sky several hundred pounds at a time. there it is. eight engines in all under those wings. unbeknownst to a lot of folks, b-52 bombers have returned to the skies, this time...