Aircraft ground support operations are explained showing jet pilots coordinating to eliminate important ground targets such as bridges, bunkers and vehicles.
I was there in '65. Anyone who actually looks into this will tell you we should not have been there. The French had 13 years and got nothing except dead and wounded back for their efforts. War, when YOU are in it is just bad. It's not the movies, people die or get injured. Our good guy policy cost us lives. Weapons, oh yes, love those weapons, but someone is behind those or flying those planes. And to give credit, the Viets were good and got better. Yes, we tried harder, but at what cost. Bless those who served, but the only happy stories you will hear is from those who made it out alive or were not wounded. Watching this here is the easy part, being in the field with live rounds coming at you or bombs being dropped near your position is not pleasant to keep this mild. Like the weapons, but War is Hell and being there is second. You have to maintain a proper perspective watching this, or go to the memorial in Washington DC to visit those who don't have a story to tell.
Thank you for your service. War is influenced by more than just military might. US essentially fought both world Commie giants Soviet and China at once while being restricted by its own self-imposed rule of engagement in the frontline and impacted by anti-war movement by liberals (the likes of libtards like Jane Fonda who later apologized) at home. It wasn't a fair fight, but US's goodwill was in action to prevent Commie's taking over Asia. US saved South Korea and Japan in Asia, and Western Europe in Europe (and later Eastern Europe, too, when Soviet bloc collapsed. People from those countries are still grateful for American sacrifices until these days. Vietnam was a more complicated combat theater mostly due to its porous border in the western part. A geographically long country (S shaped) with a porous border along its side is recipe for disaster for any expeditionary forces due to infiltration. It's like you were already being surrounded even before the war started. Korea didn't have this problem, as the peninsula is only bordered by Commie China in the North, and the rest is surrounded by water. North Vietnamese Commie terrorists knew this and exploited the advantage with their Ho Chi Minh trail, without which, South Vietnam could still exist like South Korea today, largely due to American intervention. The US soldiers did it for good cause, and that's all that matters. It's an unfortunate consequence happened when US cut aids to the Republic of South Vietnam while both Commie giants Chinese and Soviet increased aids to their North Vietnamese terrorist minions, it wouldn't take a genius to predict the outcome. Many ARVN generals and officers fought the North Vietnamese Commie terrorists to their last bullets. Dozens of them then refused to surrender to the enemy and committed suicide, staying true to their warrior creed, but their legacy lives on.
The extremely sad, and gruesome truth is, that this should never have happened. The U.S. entered and fought in another country, a country that wanted peace, and unity. Ho Chi Minh was a NATIONALIST........ and all he wanted, with the majority of all the population of Vietnam was a united country. Not one that was colonized, and turned into a work-house for the capitalist countries of France and the U.S. The U.S. should have never went there militarily. Never. Especially after Dien Bien Phu. It was CLEAR ....... that the Vietnamese wanted their freedom, and wanted their country united like it had been........ and fighting and killing millions of Vietnamese did nothing to change this. Vietnam the country has forgiven the U.S. They don't hate Americans. I have been to Ho Chi Minh City ( Saigon) and Hanoi......and as an OLDER American, I stand out... and I was never treated different than any other tourist there. The U.S. government was wrong; not the U.S. boys and men who were drafted and forced to go. You can't win a war with conscripts, and draftees against a people who are fighting a righteous cause: That is for their freedom and liberty (not to be controlled by another country and treated like a plantation for the profit of the rich capitalists).
you can blame Lyndon Johnston and those who killed Kennedy. War is big money for alot of companies who wanted the money and did not care about the loss of life. The USA always has to have n enemy just the threat of a possible war is enough to keep the tax dollars flowing into defence even tho it has been years of peace time.
My uncle flew an F-4 in Vietnam. He was shot down and was a POW for many years until the conflict ended. He survived, but his partner did not. He's still alive today and flies often as an instructor and flight tester and is an incredibly kind and humble man.
The radar intercept officer is more valuable to the enemy because they have detailed knowlege on the plane’s capabilities of tracking enemy fighters and sams
@@haroldcampbell8271 I don't recall the exact dates, but I believe he was there as a pow for several years. There are some photos of him in Time magazine from when he was released. My grandmother, his sister still has the original publication, I'll have to ask her about the specifics again.
After the Paris peace treaties we gave Vietnam $33 billion dollars to rebuild another $90 billion dollars to clean up any un explosive bombs in Cambodia and Laos.. when we left Vietnam we left behind billions and billions of equipment.We through billions of dollars worth of helicopters into the ocean to bring back the people to the United States where they are still living everybody in Vietnam was driving around in a brand new military Jeep taking their kids to school.. plus we are talkin jet fighters helicopters M60 basically we dropped everything and walked away from it all.. now they're making millions of dollars off that museum with all our equipment behind glass and pictures all over the walls with helicopters outside and F4 Phantom sitting out front..I get shot two times all my friends are dying of Agent Orange and so am I.. the only reason we were over there had to do with money and power had nothing to do with Communism..Sounds like they made out better than we did it should look beautiful over there...🏯🏰🏭🏬🏫🏪🏩💒🌆🌇🌃🌉🏣🏡🏘🏙🏦🏨
I'm glad you had a great experience. The moment I got off the plane, it's as if I stepped back in time to '74-76(±). Strange- almost everything was from the WAR. 'The American War': not the French, Japanese, French before the big show (WW2). The audacity to return after leaving them to the Japanese & returning as if 'Hey! Remember us? We're ba-ack. So, let's get back to you being children and we're the adults, as if nothing happened... I felt the guilt.A proud people, shattered and poisoned by A Orange, Napalm, 🔥💥💥💥🔥 MORE THAN IN ALL OF WW2 EUROPEAN THEATERS (TO/FROM). I'd gone to teach English so they could communicate with the tourist market, do business, et al. I'm embarrassed of the policies post JFK; The 'Nixon Doctrine'-‽ Gimme a break. Bomb, kill everyone, evacuate all villes, Cities. Blow up everything. 0oison will be leaking from the water tables for a century, maybe more. Lush, wet tropical zones turned into deserts. Nixon almost nuked them. His handwritten 'IOU' of 3.1(±) million dollars? "Well, he's gone so..TFB. We got almost all of them POWS, MIAS out. ★ PLEASE LOOK UP "EXPENDABLE" RE BOBBY GARWOOD- HE DIDN'T GET OUT UNTIL 79-80!! McCain & Kerry- 2 lowlife level vets. McCain & Kerry ACCUSED Garwood of collaborating with the enemy! McCain did one of those tapes- "I'd like to thank the NVnamese. Excellent med care, good food & treatment... " But a guy, a POW- tortured for days at a time, fake firing squads, sitting in a yellow porch in the 80s-90s calmly talking about the Hell he had to go through just to be alive. Amazing. He took them to court and won his rank I believe & received some level of 'pay' - 10 days from his service end date, he was captured. Our country likes to breed killers. We just left Afghan tribesmen with the biggest war material, supplies since VNam. See 'Expendable:___'
My brother was stationed at DaNang and served with the Marine Air wing fighter group. He reloaded and refuled many of jets. He use to tell us how he sometimes had to wash out the blood in the Huey's after they brought back the injured. He had to handle agent orange to and blamed it on his cancer. He died on Christmas Eve 2011.
25:47 Lt Karl W. Richter, 24. Officially credited with 198 missions over Vietnam. Air Force Cross, Silver Star, 4 DFCs, Bronze Star and 22 Air Medals. At 23 he was the youngest pilot to shoot down a MiG over Vietnam. Killed in action on his 199th mission over Vietnam. Some men talk the talk but very few walk the walk.
Yeah and look at what the world missed out on because of those other 'psychopaths' like Richter who prevented the entire Korean peninsula turning out like North Korea. Wanna know what would have happened in Vietnam if the US was able to hold the line? Look at South Korea vs North Korea. At least North Vietnam turned out to be far more sane than the NORKS.
Between 1964 and 1973, Laos became, per capita, the most heavily bombed country in the world, with over two million tons of bombs dropped during the Vietnam War, one ton for each person living in Laos at the time in fact. It was bombed more than England, more than Germany, more than Japan, even more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. There still remains thousands of unexploded bombs and other ordinance in it's jungles.
I was stationed on the border of Laos (far north easter corner of Thailand. We sat at the edge of the Mekong River which separates Laos & Thailand and watch fire fights over Laos. One day an unmarked airplane hovered over us and you could hear his engines rev up and he took off for Laos. As soon as he was over it he dropped a huge bomb!! He bombed a landing strip that the communists were using in a little town by the name of Thakhek. Many years I met a Laotian who was from Thakhek so we had stories to tell over beer.
We got to remove 2 of them last year on an expedition. The rest was mines. Almost lost a leg too. Joined by some old jarheads guilt tripping themselves here too.
Which makes it even more amazing that these murderers haven't been brought to an international court for their crimes against humanity. Agent Orange still affects thousands and more thousands of newborn children today.
Watching this feels like being a kid again watching all the old films the military channel would play later into evening/night. This bouta be a great nightlight to have on thank you. I'll probably actually be done watching it after a week of nights falling asleep picking up where i last remember being.
@@ChironZore "They lost every military engagement." Battle of An Lão, Battle of Ban Houei Sane, Operation Barrel Roll, Battle of FSB Mary Ann, Battle Of Xuân Lộc, the list goes on and on for the battles and operations the US has lost in Vietnam.
@@ChironZore LoL :)), going another country with a ton of weapon and allies, start bombing cities, burning villages, killing peoples, then get punched back in the mouth, they said: "ok, we cant win, we should left this country before they kill all of us" :)). God bless American and their "walk away army"
Vietnamese Air Force has 127 aircraft at it most powerful time in the late 60s, most were obsolete Mig 17s....some of the major US offensives packaged more than 200 aircraft, against which the Vietnamese would send 4 or 5 flights of 4 aircraft.....knowing they were outnumbered, outrained, and against much better technology, they still went up....hats off to them
North Vietnamese Commies routinely sent their terrorists to South Vietnam to mine buses, bombard schools, throw grenades into markets full of people, massacring countless civilians. Tet Offensive 1968 they buried alive 10k civilians in Hue City. Ho Chi Minh terrorist leader killed 1 million North Vietnamese during his land reform alone (1953-1956), ranked as top 10 prolific butchers of 20th century, along with fellow Commie butchers Mao, Lenin, and Pol-Pot.
This is the only documentary I've seen where the air Force phantoms were referred to as the F-110! This was definitely made before the standardization of the names and numbers of all US military aircraft. Very cool thanks for sharing.
Nhật pháp và mỹ đã xâm chiếm Việt Nam đưa Việt Nam dag về thời kỳ đồ đồng nhưng hoà bình lập lại chúng tôi lại xây dựng lại đất nước to hơn đẹp hơn lêu lêu
Хотелось бы выразить свое глубочайшее уважение доблестному вьетнамскому народу за их "гостеприимство" в отношении этой оголтелой банды мародеров, насильников и убийц.
What's about Afghanistan? The russian invasion? What's about Stalin who murdered millions of people? Your glorious russia isn't better than any other nation in the world.
As a vet myself I have the utmost respect for the men that fought in this war and the women that helped put them back together. So if there is any Vietnam Vets that read this I want to personally say thank you and God bless each and everyone of you!
Vietnam vet here, In 1967 the F-4C were fun to watch. Left seat door gunner flying low level skimming the tree tops. when napalm was delivered the fireball was deadly. I flew with the 155AHC most often with a UH-1C gunship.
The Thuds were gone by the time I arrived at Takhli in 1971, except for one that had been dragged off the runway and was sitting in the grass near the MARS station. So I decided to salvage some parts from it--the nose wheel was a great ashtray for our radio station and I pulled the VHF receiver from the cockpit and brought it back to the States. Ended up giving it to my brother, which I regret now. Maybe I could get it back.......
Yes but it’s very progressive..I’ve been travelling here for 6 months from the top to the bottom and it’s great to see where it has come from and its people are soo resiliant and kind.. a fantastic place to visit imo
Old man Goat ; free people???!!! Like free american ? free to attack other countries that are not obey them( american)?? Free to develope weapons to threaten the weak? Free to bring thousands of troops into my country and killl my people?? Free to drop thousands of tons of bombs in my country and don’t care if they are communist or ordinary people? So what is that kind of freedom for???!!! Don’t be free to vomit out something that you just hear. Come to travel in VN like the one commented above.
@Old man Goat It takes time for a country to develop itself to be a successful and stable democracy. MANY of the so-called democratic countries are actually failed democracies and faux democracies. Even in the US, the politicians are actually answerable to the special interest groups that paid them, and the voters (the few that vote) vote for the same bought and paid for politicians term after term. The US is stable because it is wealthy and the vast majority are satisfied. Developing countries are poor and hence inherently unstable. As for democracy, it should be a goal for developing countries to work toward to, but not necessarily ready for. Even with U.S. support, South Korea did not become a democracy until 1987 with the first direct election of its president; and this is after decades of political turmoil, including the assassination of a president. Similarly, Taiwan only became a democracy in 1996 with the first direct election of its president. Both governments have ruled with a brutal iron fist against dissent before democracy came about. Unfortunately, the government of South Vietnam was unstable, brutal, and corrupt. So bad that the U.S. tacitly approved for the assassination of its president, Ngo Dinh Diem. It takes a strong and stable central government to institute major economic and social changes which take many years to achieve. Vietnam today is not under communism, but more accurately described as a single party dictatorship and very pro-capitalism. It is a single-party ruled dictatorship like S. Korean and Taiwan (KMT Party) were. It is forward looking and constantly changing to meet economic and social challenges of the future. It has its problems and challenges as with any developing countries. www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/01/15/vietnam-is-following-the-asian-tiger-currency-formula-for-rapid-economic-growth/#518d77a4bed0 The economic path above cannot be achieved for a developing country under so called "democracy" due to political interference from the various elites. english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/195916/does-vietnam-s-future-depend-on-middle-class-development-.html When Vietnam has reached the economic level of what S. Korea was back in the 90's and strenghtened its institutions, then maybe it will be ready for major political change. Vietnam is not quite ready yet.
@@AnhTuan-pp3iq most important thing in a diplomacy is whether you have strength to take initiative, either in military strength or in global economy, which is pretty unfortunate for you guys since you have neither.
My supervisor was there as a Weapons Loader on F-4. 12hr shifts all the time. I joined in 1980 and met him in Lakenheath, England USAF 1983 48 EMS Armament shop.. He did not want to go back to the states-the way the vets were being treated. I did 20yrs AF. Loved it !
The Skyraiders were really valuable in Vietnam. They could loiter like crazy and get in close to their targets! In the Jet age they proved that prop aircraft could still do the job.
@@johnr8820 Nhật pháp và mỹ đã xâm chiếm Việt Nam đưa Việt Nam dag về thời kỳ đồ đồng nhưng hoà bình lập lại chúng tôi lại xây dựng lại đất nước to hơn đẹp hơn lêu lêu
“I don’t really need this picture frame” What a great way to finish this excellent documentary don’t you want to buy them all a pint when you see the camaraderie shown even down to the dog it was amazing I still have to say the Vietnamese how resourceful were they when you consider what the planes could carry
I still think the a-10 warthog is the most intimidating sounding aircraft ever made and it looks cool too. I love it when they fly low just above the tree line and circle I could see the pilot's face in the warthog I saluted him and he saluted back as he circled around me and headed back for Plattsburgh when they were opened that was a cool experience those engine sounded incredible.
Brave U.S. pilots and military there. Some are suffering out in the streets homeless, to this day. They did not ask for it, just wanted to be a good American. Doing the right thing, to serve their country. Much respect for them...
From Min. 22:09 That's Ed Rasimus. Flew a tour in 66 (I think) in the "Thud" and later a tour in the F-4. You can read about the missions, Karl Richter and last but not least old Roscoe in his books. "When Thunder Rolled" and "Palace Cobra".
Fighters make movies. Bombers make history. The F-4 did not end the War for America. B-52 bombers did..fighting the North Vietnamese Army attempting to invade the South in 1972...Then bombing the North's capital in December of that same year.
During pilot training class of 1966 the entire class started to call themselves The flying Cossacks and had a talisman of having a Ukrainian Trident . The only American Ukrainian pilot was Steve Olek his class performed 10000 sorties with no losses , Steve Olek racked up 590 sorties during Vietnam. He's now an advisor to the Ukrainian armed forces having travelled there . There's newspapers information about the above legend and having that Trident was a lucky charm .
When I joined the USAF in 1986 we had many excellent pilots and ground crew who were Vietnam, some even Korea Veterans in the unit I ended up at in Air Guard, 103D TAC Fighter Group. They had flown the 105 and rotated through Vietnam. It was the static display plane on the base. This is like seeing those guys 15 years younger.
my first appearance on a flightline as a crew chief to be was 1991. I knew the peace era people (fats slobs and cracked jokes), from the yuppies and the war grunts my first day. I ended up a grunt crew chief... you won't see me again. the viet nam era has my respect, it was primary war education to gulf 1. In fact the tanker we were taught on was poisoned with agent orange.I remember when our flightline officer spoke up and said we did 1500 sorties since my enlistment .I remained the youngest for 6.5 years... our flightline was VERY unwelcome place to be. I stay easy going realizing viet nam missions. Given todays tech etc... none of us will be seen again
My Dad too flew an E4.221 missions out of Karat AFB Thailand.When He Came Home He never spoke of the missions he Did.I remember only pics of his tail number 13He only said bad luck for them.
@@tomt373 Guy that was a partner and taught me to fly in the Citabria was a Sky raider pilot off the Kitty hawk in Nam, great pilot and super spiritual after being shot down and rescued 45 min later by a Jolly green in a small arms target shoot!
Attended I of Colorado, was a cadet on AFROTC whereupon CO - Colonel Robert J Mock, was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. Boy, the stories he could tell . . . . . 🇺🇸
@@user-ph9sb8tu7j , might want to brush up on your history a bit. Kill ratio in Vietnam was around 4 to 1 in favor of the Americans in air-to-air engagements.
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 That is because politicians had their way, as usual. In fact, Rolling Thunder, if allowed to continue, would have forced Hanoi to sue for peace. Ho Chi Minh himself said as much post-war. Presidential U.S election criteria fucked it up.... Luckily, for us all, Germany's politicians caused their forces to suffer massive defeats culminating in complete collapse of all German forces in WW2. The more the involvement of inept politicians, the greater the chance of defeat for their respective countries.
Lt Richter that was interviewed went on and flew another 98 missions after his 1st 100 missions (he could have gone home after 100). He was killed on that 198th mission.
I look at all that amazing military technology and all the brave dedicated and highly skilled military personell, and all I can think is what a terrible waste that war was. In the end it accomplished nothing.
IRON TRIANGLE: Chou-Chi La Drang and another mudhole made the triangle when you had bombs to dump and no where to put them they dropped on Chou -chi and Hobo Woods. Shell fire always 3-4 round and aircraft would drop on em and see nothing. A 105 in a cave. 355 miles of interconnecting tunnels made over 50 years. Tanks were hidden there and a complete hospital underground and close to Saigon. 52 strikes could bury them alive but only a portion of the tunnels.
I was on the Vam-Co river from Ben Luc to Tra Cu...with the RVN Navy.. no one told us what was in Cu Chi...when I found out years later I wished we had shot more CS gas in there..could have flushed out some more action...WTFO!
Spent my tour in 1970 loading munitions on the F4 load napalm, 500 lb, bombs ,CBUs, missiles loved to watch the F4 take off at night with afterburners awesome sight. Great fighter
@@drewmillz1 he was still doing a very dangerous job that he may not have even wanted to do I feel as if he should be thanked for that because when he got back home he sure as hell wasn’t
Not to mention small firearms such as the m14, m21, and m16 rifles. Support firearms such as the m79 break-action grenade launcher and M60 machine gun. Armored equipment such as the M113 amphibious APCs is also still very prominent in active duty across various Mindanao incursions. The M35 multipurpose troop carrier as well as the M105 howitzer is the backbone of the Philippine military. The OV 10 bronco was the main attack aircraft used during the Marawi siege.
To all my instructors and flyers who educated me on what to do and how to do it. You were our heroes and our mentors - thank you for your dedication and support that help me become a better pilot and officer, my heart is with you all (many of you have died already defending our country). May God bless all of you because you gave me a reason to live or to fight. Peace be with you all, Ciao, L (118 combat missions).
@@mikejohnson5900 Hi Mike, thank you for the nice words. I was very lucky. What I went through is nothing compared to our elders (soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines) who fought in the previous wars. All wars are bad, but I would say that Vietnam was worse because of the rejection and the betrayal that many of our Veteran suffered upon their return/repatriation/release... Let's not forget what all those Veterans fought for, stood for, and made the ultimate sacrifice for... May God bless America, Peace be with you Mike, Ciao, L
@@lancelot1953 I agree I believe it’s pathetic how lots of our country treated these hero’s who just went through hell and back for America I want to join the marines or army when I’m old enough I have great respect for our brave men and women 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@captainsimbadog8347 Hi CaptainSimbaDog, I encourage you to join the military - In my days (I am a Baby Boomer), it was a fact of life that we, teenagers, were all going to serve the country a couple of years as part of "growing up". The training that I got was incredible and gave me utmost respect for our country and what it stands for. It meant so much to me that I made a career out of it. As for you, since you are young, I would recommend that you attend college and request a commission in the military as an officer. If you have a chance, apply to the service academies (West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force...). As far as Army vs. Marines, I would say that the Marines have a harder life (in my days at least) but the connection that Marines share across the ranks is unique/second to none; once a Marine, always a Marine (Semper Fi!). Good luck to you and Peace be with you, Ciao, L
@@adamsimpson3807 general Giap agrees with you. He was calling his field operations back north when Walter Cronkite said “this war is lost on live tv. Giap heard this and decided to fight the war using our own media. It’s in his writings and books
I kind of hate it when people say "we didn't belong there" or "we had no business fighting in Vietnam" etc. As an ethnic Thai, and an amateur historian, the "Domino Effect" was very real. Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Burma (Myanmar) all became communists after the fall of South Vietnam. Millions would die in the "Killing Fields" / political purges of Cambodia, and countless thousands would become refugees. I was really young at the time, but it seemed that even though Americans didn't appreciate the warfighters that served in Vietnam, my parents showed me why Thai people should be grateful. Just because all of the dominoes didn't fall, doesn't mean the threat wasn't real. History moves on, and people's memories are short. I don't know if current Thai folks even know the sacrifice that Americans made to fight communist aggression. I'm certain, going through the American school system, that it isn't taught at all in grade school, or even college. Why we were there? I guess that's up to how you want to interpret the Truman Doctrine. We had our fill in Korea, We didn't use it in Europe, when the Soviet Union stomped all over the Hungarians or the Czechs. We decided that Cuba was going to be a special case. But we decided to get involved in South Vietnam, then proceeded to fight it in a backwards manner. My respect goes to those who served, fought, were wounded, captured, and those who died in service to their country, the United States of America. May God Bless you all. I have little respect for the politicians and leaders who seemingly wasted their efforts and lives, and other valuable resources in a war they hampered the warfighter from winning. The lesson that many generals learned and would later employ during the First Gulf War is that if you are going to fight a war, fight to win, or don't fight it at all.
Shut up ladyboy! You people from thailand are all sellouts known in Asia known for being bitches for the western powers and sell their 🐱 you know we have f..ked you and the cambod in the past thats why yall so salty.. weak ass people🇻🇳
God Bless America! Although We didn't belong there (in hindsight), it was a helluva ride. I was at Kadena AB in '79 and heard stories from my elder Security Police buddies who had been at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. We had the F-4s at Kadena AB (later F-15s added) and it was interesting watching them do touch and goes at night with their after burners on (and SR-71s Habu, too) and land with their drag chutes on...I've been to Vietnam as a tourist but watched the first TV war as a kid and saw some early casualties at Saint Albans Naval Hospital (Queens NY) as my sister was born there in 1965. All memories now...
The United States, along with their allies (The Republic of Vietnam, South Korean, Australian, Thailand, New Zealand), lost about 12,500 aircraft, helicopters and UAVs. North Vietnam lost 150 - 170 aircraft and helicopters.
@@elzorro7of9 but the losses of the vietcong was mind boggling sure they were a determined and very disaplende group of people with a will that couldn't easily be broken with all the air support and death from above they choose to go under ground and not let their spirit be broken most society's couldn't take that constant bombing on a daily basis
@@lenholloway4390 No were near the number women and children the VC and NVA murdered. Like the 5000 people they massacred in Hue before the Tet offensive.
I flew the F-4E 1983-87 in the 3TFS at Clark AB, Philippines. We had old heads with good ‘Nam stories. Learned more about tactical flying at the bar than in the class room. The Rhino was a cool jet, but it was hard to be an expert in all dedicated tasks. Interdiction, CAS, Offensive counter air, Nukes, and precision guided munitions (Pave Tack and GBU-15). Our Squadron was a jack all trades-master of none. But man, it was fun to be young and flying jets back in the day.
24:49 -- *Lt Karl W. Richter* (the pilot who wanted to stay for another 100 missions) *was killed in combat on July 28, 1967.* I'm not sure if they covered this fact in the documentary (I stopped it at 26:04, and wrote this comment while it was still on my mind because I just happened to know that he died in Vietnam after volunteering for a second tour). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_W._Richter
I knew lieutenant Carl r i c h t e r when he was home on his last leave and when he signed up when he told me he signed up for another 100 missions I didn't understand too much about the war I did follow it as much as we could get on TV but to have seen all these videos of the f10500 Chiefs I understand so well Hawaii chose to do another 100 missions he loved what he did I wish you would have came back home for another leave I know I would have loved to see him again I did see him when his body came home to his house in his glass covered top part casket I I felt so bad I think we could have had a relationship I know we could have if he would have just came home again for even a short while bye KARL
My uncle Dewayne was a pilot during the Vietnam War in 1966. He told me once that when he was over a population area they all had a stink bomb they could drop and the smell was so awful that the civilians would run for it. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
The air commandos, jolly green CSAR - we need a movie dedicated to the craziest bunch of pilots that ever flew - the most dangerous mission in history of combat.. Diller, Hudson couple of sandy pilots 602SOS 69-70 NKP - cholly cholly yu no 1! Those pilots fought in their own mess, unlike jet strikes - the 602SOS fought in the napalm it dropped, the sights, the smells those were some hard core pilots dedicated to getting their fellow airmen out from behind enemy lines. Love to do a movie with real A-1s, no CGI crap - real airplanes.
I wonder if in today's arming of fighter jets if the ground crew uses hydraulic hoists to load the rocket pods and sidewinder missiles up to the brackets under each wing? When the weather is super hot and the crew are handling live munitions mistakes can and do happen. So to protect against such potential accidents from happening and to also protect the crew members, the ground crew and the fighter jets, introduce machinery into the mix to make these guys work much easier and safer.
They have. During the battle of midway up to 60% of torpedoes did that hit targets had not armed and did not explode. This was due to poor handling, service and maintenance. They learned the lessons the very hardest way
The war between the demons from North America and the heroic Vietnamese. Respect and be grateful for the wonderful Vietnamese pilots, the pride of the country.
I love this documentary, it's very intriguing! Just finish watching it Friday 10-15-2021 at 8:50 pm. But, only the only bad thing about this war American shouldn't be involved in this kind of war. It's not their war, a lot innocent people died and also a huge amount Americans died in this catostrophic Vietnam war! Have A Blessed Weekends Everybody!
Humble professionals who were doing what they were ordered to do. Some were family men, others were not. Some believed in what they were doing, some did not. These men all shared two things in common however, the love of flying and a devotion to duty. Thank you to my dad who flew a total of 154 missions and to these brave men.
It's incredible how much the technology has advanced which resulted in a completely different aerial warfare tactics and procedures. During the Vietnam War, if you wanted to take out a specific strategic target, a bridge or a fuel warehouse, war planers had to send a whole strike package to execute the mission. This included the Wild weasels to suppress air defense. Than you had to have a few of the air fighters defending the strike package from an enemy's aircraft. And last but nit the least you had to send multiple tactical bombers with dozens upon dozens of 500-1000 pound bombs to saturate the target. And after all that you could miss the target but you've sent dozens of aircraft and put dozens of pilots in mortal danger... Today you send a single stealth bomber and destroy 20 different targets with pin point precision in a single mission...
@@WaldoCastles what about it? The USA wasn’t the first country to have slavery a major part of its economy. Some countries still have slavery today. Is the the USA’s fault too still? We fought over the disagreement of slavery and abolished it. Is that difficult to figure out and move on from? My family has never owned slaves.
My uncle Jack flew the F4 phantom in Vietnam, I was about 10 yrs old and in awe, when he got leave he'd be at my grandparents house on holidays, I always wanted to ask questions but he didn't talk about it, thank God for our military and the men and women who sacrifice so much for our country. 🇺🇸🙏
@@InnovateIQ1987đến giết người Việt Nam trong khi Việt Nam không có nhu cầu chiến tranh đã phá nát đất nước và cướp đi rất nhiều Sinh mạng vô tội .hoa kỳ quá ác độc . mà vẫn tự hào được . mệt mỏi
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I was there in '65. Anyone who actually looks into this will tell you we should not have been there. The French had 13 years and got nothing except dead and wounded back for their efforts. War, when YOU are in it is just bad. It's not the movies, people die or get injured. Our good guy policy cost us lives. Weapons, oh yes, love those weapons, but someone is behind those or flying those planes. And to give credit, the Viets were good and got better. Yes, we tried harder, but at what cost. Bless those who served, but the only happy stories you will hear is from those who made it out alive or were not wounded. Watching this here is the easy part, being in the field with live rounds coming at you or bombs being dropped near your position is not pleasant to keep this mild. Like the weapons, but War is Hell and being there is second. You have to maintain a proper perspective watching this, or go to the memorial in Washington DC to visit those who don't have a story to tell.
Thank you for your service. War is influenced by more than just military might. US essentially fought both world Commie giants Soviet and China at once while being restricted by its own self-imposed rule of engagement in the frontline and impacted by anti-war movement by liberals (the likes of libtards like Jane Fonda who later apologized) at home. It wasn't a fair fight, but US's goodwill was in action to prevent Commie's taking over Asia. US saved South Korea and Japan in Asia, and Western Europe in Europe (and later Eastern Europe, too, when Soviet bloc collapsed. People from those countries are still grateful for American sacrifices until these days. Vietnam was a more complicated combat theater mostly due to its porous border in the western part. A geographically long country (S shaped) with a porous border along its side is recipe for disaster for any expeditionary forces due to infiltration. It's like you were already being surrounded even before the war started. Korea didn't have this problem, as the peninsula is only bordered by Commie China in the North, and the rest is surrounded by water. North Vietnamese Commie terrorists knew this and exploited the advantage with their Ho Chi Minh trail, without which, South Vietnam could still exist like South Korea today, largely due to American intervention. The US soldiers did it for good cause, and that's all that matters. It's an unfortunate consequence happened when US cut aids to the Republic of South Vietnam while both Commie giants Chinese and Soviet increased aids to their North Vietnamese terrorist minions, it wouldn't take a genius to predict the outcome. Many ARVN generals and officers fought the North Vietnamese Commie terrorists to their last bullets. Dozens of them then refused to surrender to the enemy and committed suicide, staying true to their warrior creed, but their legacy lives on.
The extremely sad, and gruesome truth is, that this should never have happened.
The U.S. entered and fought in another country, a country that wanted peace, and unity.
Ho Chi Minh was a NATIONALIST........ and all he wanted, with the majority of all the population of Vietnam was a united country. Not one that was colonized, and turned into a work-house for the capitalist countries of France and the U.S.
The U.S. should have never went there militarily. Never. Especially after Dien Bien Phu.
It was CLEAR ....... that the Vietnamese wanted their freedom, and wanted their country united like it had been........ and fighting and killing millions of Vietnamese did nothing to change this.
Vietnam the country has forgiven the U.S. They don't hate Americans.
I have been to Ho Chi Minh City ( Saigon) and Hanoi......and as an OLDER American, I stand out... and I was never treated different than any other tourist there.
The U.S. government was wrong; not the U.S. boys and men who were drafted and forced to go.
You can't win a war with conscripts, and draftees against a people who are fighting a righteous cause: That is for their freedom and liberty (not to be controlled by another country and treated like a plantation for the profit of the rich capitalists).
@@fugguhber4699 you're right and wrong in the same time saying uncle Ho wasn't communist is wrong he was since before the ww2.
Thank you Ed for your comment. With all the self praise on the superiority of American war machines, the Vietnamese won.
you can blame Lyndon Johnston and those who killed Kennedy. War is big money for alot of companies who wanted the money and did not care about the loss of life. The USA always has to have n enemy just the threat of a possible war is enough to keep the tax dollars flowing into defence even tho it has been years of peace time.
My uncle flew an F-4 in Vietnam. He was shot down and was a POW for many years until the conflict ended. He survived, but his partner did not. He's still alive today and flies often as an instructor and flight tester and is an incredibly kind and humble man.
The radar intercept officer is more valuable to the enemy because they have detailed knowlege on the plane’s capabilities of tracking enemy fighters and sams
@@harrisonc985 His partner died on impact.
We had 2 Phantom squadrons on the carrier USS Saratoga in 72. I was attached to VA-75 A-6 intruders. When was your uncle there?
@@haroldcampbell8271 I don't recall the exact dates, but I believe he was there as a pow for several years. There are some photos of him in Time magazine from when he was released. My grandmother, his sister still has the original publication, I'll have to ask her about the specifics again.
F-4 shitty piece of metal
In 2015, I visited Vietnam. Da Nang air port is now an International Airport. Very modern and beautiful small city. People there were very nice to me.
北方領土は政治家が音頭とって損切してくれればそれで良い。
北方領土以外の紛争領土を考察すると竹島や尖閣など島の土地としての価値など何もない。鉱物資源もなければ農業ができるわけでもない。これらの島の価値とは島に付随する広大な「海域」こそ重要なのですよ。
北方領土は諸島の4つの島にすぎない。周囲をロシアの島々に囲まれているので広大な海域が付随するわけではない。では島の土地の価値を考えた場合、インフラもコンビニも無い自然環境過酷な北の辺境です。超過疎地になることが返還前から確定してますな。
After the Paris peace treaties we gave Vietnam $33 billion dollars to rebuild another $90 billion dollars to clean up any un explosive bombs in Cambodia and Laos.. when we left Vietnam we left behind billions and billions of equipment.We through billions of dollars worth of helicopters into the ocean to bring back the people to the United States where they are still living everybody in Vietnam was driving around in a brand new military Jeep taking their kids to school.. plus we are talkin jet fighters helicopters M60 basically we dropped everything and walked away from it all.. now they're making millions of dollars off that museum with all our equipment behind glass and pictures all over the walls with helicopters outside and F4 Phantom sitting out front..I get shot two times all my friends are dying of Agent Orange and so am I.. the only reason we were over there had to do with money and power had nothing to do with Communism..Sounds like they made out better than we did it should look beautiful over there...🏯🏰🏭🏬🏫🏪🏩💒🌆🌇🌃🌉🏣🏡🏘🏙🏦🏨
Nicest city in VN IMO. Did you see some of the old American cars there?
I'm glad you had a great experience. The moment I got off the plane, it's as if I stepped back in time to '74-76(±). Strange- almost everything was from the WAR. 'The American War': not the French, Japanese, French before the big show (WW2). The audacity to return after leaving them to the Japanese & returning as if 'Hey! Remember us? We're ba-ack. So, let's get back to you being children and we're the adults, as if nothing happened...
I felt the guilt.A proud people, shattered and poisoned by A Orange, Napalm, 🔥💥💥💥🔥 MORE THAN IN ALL OF WW2 EUROPEAN THEATERS (TO/FROM).
I'd gone to teach English so they could communicate with the tourist market, do business, et al.
I'm embarrassed of the policies post JFK; The 'Nixon Doctrine'-‽ Gimme a break. Bomb, kill everyone, evacuate all villes, Cities. Blow up everything. 0oison will be leaking from the water tables for a century, maybe more. Lush, wet tropical zones turned into deserts.
Nixon almost nuked them. His handwritten 'IOU' of 3.1(±) million dollars? "Well, he's gone so..TFB. We got almost all of them POWS, MIAS out.
★ PLEASE LOOK UP "EXPENDABLE" RE BOBBY GARWOOD- HE DIDN'T GET OUT UNTIL 79-80!! McCain & Kerry- 2 lowlife level vets. McCain & Kerry ACCUSED Garwood of collaborating with the enemy! McCain did one of those tapes- "I'd like to thank the NVnamese. Excellent med care, good food & treatment... " But a guy, a POW- tortured for days at a time, fake firing squads, sitting in a yellow porch in the 80s-90s calmly talking about the Hell he had to go through just to be alive. Amazing. He took them to court and won his rank I believe & received some level of 'pay' - 10 days from his service end date, he was captured.
Our country likes to breed killers.
We just left Afghan tribesmen with the biggest war material, supplies since VNam. See 'Expendable:___'
They want your tourist dollars.
My brother was stationed at DaNang and served with the Marine Air wing fighter group. He reloaded and refuled many of jets. He use to tell us how he sometimes had to wash out the blood in the Huey's after they brought back the injured. He had to handle agent orange to and blamed it on his cancer. He died on Christmas Eve 2011.
Sorry to hear that my brother. Semper Fi.
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God Bless your brother and his loved ones.....
25:47 Lt Karl W. Richter, 24. Officially credited with 198 missions over Vietnam. Air Force Cross, Silver Star, 4 DFCs, Bronze Star and 22 Air Medals. At 23 he was the youngest pilot to shoot down a MiG over Vietnam. Killed in action on his 199th mission over Vietnam. Some men talk the talk but very few walk the walk.
angmhalp us Gaye thinj
I guess Trump wouldn't like him.He likes pilots who don't get shot down.
angmhalp Very well said. Thank you for sharing this information on this very Brave and very missed, young Man.💕
I looked him up too. A great American airman.
Yeah and look at what the world missed out on because of those other 'psychopaths' like Richter who prevented the entire Korean peninsula turning out like North Korea. Wanna know what would have happened in Vietnam if the US was able to hold the line? Look at South Korea vs North Korea. At least North Vietnam turned out to be far more sane than the NORKS.
Between 1964 and 1973, Laos became, per capita, the most heavily bombed country in the world, with over two million tons of bombs dropped during the Vietnam War, one ton for each person living in Laos at the time in fact. It was bombed more than England, more than Germany, more than Japan, even more than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. There still remains thousands of unexploded bombs and other ordinance in it's jungles.
Freedom bombs
I was stationed on the border of Laos (far north easter corner of Thailand. We sat at the edge of the Mekong River which separates Laos & Thailand and watch fire fights over Laos. One day an unmarked airplane hovered over us and you could hear his engines rev up and he took off for Laos. As soon as he was over it he dropped a huge bomb!! He bombed a landing strip that the communists were using in a little town by the name of Thakhek. Many years I met a Laotian who was from Thakhek so we had stories to tell over beer.
We got to remove 2 of them last year on an expedition. The rest was mines. Almost lost a leg too. Joined by some old jarheads guilt tripping themselves here too.
Which makes it even more amazing that these murderers haven't been brought to an international court for their crimes against humanity. Agent Orange still affects thousands and more thousands of newborn children today.
Americans should remove all of them
Watching this feels like being a kid again watching all the old films the military channel would play later into evening/night. This bouta be a great nightlight to have on thank you. I'll probably actually be done watching it after a week of nights falling asleep picking up where i last remember being.
I went to school with Steve Allen, we were both USAF,
but he got at least 2 Migs as an F-4 jock. Great pilot, real decent man!
mig 17 with f4. but nourt viet nam win, and viet nam never lost
@@duynv89 They lost every military engagement. We left, they walked into Saigon.
@反共抗俄 một đứa trẻ không hiểu về lịch sử
@@ChironZore "They lost every military engagement." Battle of An Lão, Battle of Ban Houei Sane, Operation Barrel Roll, Battle of FSB Mary Ann, Battle Of Xuân Lộc, the list goes on and on for the battles and operations the US has lost in Vietnam.
@@ChironZore LoL :)), going another country with a ton of weapon and allies, start bombing cities, burning villages, killing peoples, then get punched back in the mouth, they said: "ok, we cant win, we should left this country before they kill all of us" :)). God bless American and their "walk away army"
Vietnamese Air Force has 127 aircraft at it most powerful time in the late 60s, most were obsolete Mig 17s....some of the major US offensives packaged more than 200 aircraft, against which the Vietnamese would send 4 or 5 flights of 4 aircraft.....knowing they were outnumbered, outrained, and against much better technology, they still went up....hats off to them
North Vietnamese Commies routinely sent their terrorists to South Vietnam to mine buses, bombard schools, throw grenades into markets full of people, massacring countless civilians. Tet Offensive 1968 they buried alive 10k civilians in Hue City. Ho Chi Minh terrorist leader killed 1 million North Vietnamese during his land reform alone (1953-1956), ranked as top 10 prolific butchers of 20th century, along with fellow Commie butchers Mao, Lenin, and Pol-Pot.
interesting though there are more north vietnamese aces than american aces
True... Very True
Sadly no one talks about them, but they were impressive at that time. True fighters...
@@JL-tm3rcno there aren't. Most US pilots were flying air to ground missions. The only aces are the SAMs the NV used.
This is the only documentary I've seen where the air Force phantoms were referred to as the F-110! This was definitely made before the standardization of the names and numbers of all US military aircraft. Very cool thanks for sharing.
Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo k
Nhật pháp và mỹ đã xâm chiếm Việt Nam đưa Việt Nam dag về thời kỳ đồ đồng nhưng hoà bình lập lại chúng tôi lại xây dựng lại đất nước to hơn đẹp hơn lêu lêu
True. I've never heard it referred to as the F-110 aside from whitepapers.
Quê hương Việt Nam anh hùng của tôi ❤️. Thà hy sinh tất cả chứ không chịu khuất phục làm nô lệ. 💪
Giám tao mới lạ, thực tế bây giờ nè 😂
Communism is the worst form of slavery. Your countrymen died in droves making you a slave.
Nobody was trying to enslave you.. but the communists.
@@thicucnguyen8150bị b52 nó ép đến thủ đô mà có đầu hàng đâu:)) chứng minh cách đây 50 năm r đấy th đần
Đừng lấy lòng Cali mà đo lòng Việt Nam @@thicucnguyen8150
Хотелось бы выразить свое глубочайшее уважение доблестному вьетнамскому народу за их "гостеприимство" в отношении этой оголтелой банды мародеров, насильников и убийц.
What's about Afghanistan? The russian invasion? What's about Stalin who murdered millions of people? Your glorious russia isn't better than any other nation in the world.
@@Wuddi100 ЗАВАЛИ ХАЙЛО ХУЙЛО
@@Wuddi100
ИНАЧЕ ПРИПОМНИМ ТЕБЕ НЕ ТОЛЬКО АФГАНИСТАН, ИРАК, ИРАН... И МНОГОЕ ДРУГОЕ
Same for those being raped in Ukraine.
You're a 🤡
This has really been fascinating. Thank you everyone for your service, and welcome home. God bless you all.
what do u call a service? going abroad and kill kids and women? in the name of what?!
"THANKS FOR INVADING ???" fck off
Убийцы мирных жителей попадут в ад
As a vet myself I have the utmost respect for the men that fought in this war and the women that helped put them back together. So if there is any Vietnam Vets that read this I want to personally say thank you and God bless each and everyone of you!
Cảm ơn đồng chí
What do you remember most bout the war?
Ok let me pass on your message to William Cali and his buddies.
Go halfway around the world to mass murder families and childrens...proud??
That war has been one of the biggest shits of USA imperialism. Blame on it and on all "veterans" whio killed poor innocent Vietnamese
Vietnam vet here, In 1967 the F-4C were fun to watch. Left seat door gunner flying low level skimming the tree tops. when napalm was delivered the fireball was deadly. I flew with the 155AHC most often with a UH-1C gunship.
What do you remember most bout the war?
Thank you for your service sir! I am the father of an Afghanistan combat veteran
How many innocent lives did you take away? Must be too many to remember or too routine to care!
@@ashokiimc The innocents killed and destruction he left behind.
Left seat door gunner? In an F-4C???
"Old people start war, young people dies"
The Thuds were gone by the time I arrived at Takhli in 1971, except for one that had been dragged off the runway and was sitting in the grass near the MARS station. So I decided to salvage some parts from it--the nose wheel was a great ashtray for our radio station and I pulled the VHF receiver from the cockpit and brought it back to the States. Ended up giving it to my brother, which I regret now. Maybe I could get it back.......
What was your job and what branch of service.
@@DG-ie5ip I was Air Force (1968-1972). For the first 3 years I was a Ground Radio Operator and for the last year Air Police.
I love Vietnam..what an amazing beautiful country it is today..love the Vietnamese people..
Yes but it’s very progressive..I’ve been travelling here for 6 months from the top to the bottom and it’s great to see where it has come from and its people are soo resiliant and kind.. a fantastic place to visit imo
Old man Goat ; free people???!!! Like free american ? free to attack other countries that are not obey them( american)?? Free to develope weapons to threaten the weak? Free to bring thousands of troops into my country and killl my people?? Free to drop thousands of tons of bombs in my country and don’t care if they are communist or ordinary people? So what is that kind of freedom for???!!!
Don’t be free to vomit out something that you just hear. Come to travel in VN like the one commented above.
@Old man Goat It takes time for a country to develop itself to be a successful and stable democracy. MANY of the so-called democratic countries are actually failed democracies and faux democracies. Even in the US, the politicians are actually answerable to the special interest groups that paid them, and the voters (the few that vote) vote for the same bought and paid for politicians term after term. The US is stable because it is wealthy and the vast majority are satisfied. Developing countries are poor and hence inherently unstable. As for democracy, it should be a goal for developing countries to work toward to, but not necessarily ready for. Even with U.S. support, South Korea did not become a democracy until 1987 with the first direct election of its president; and this is after decades of political turmoil, including the assassination of a president. Similarly, Taiwan only became a democracy in 1996 with the first direct election of its president. Both governments have ruled with a brutal iron fist against dissent before democracy came about. Unfortunately, the government of South Vietnam was unstable, brutal, and corrupt. So bad that the U.S. tacitly approved for the assassination of its president, Ngo Dinh Diem. It takes a strong and stable central government to institute major economic and social changes which take many years to achieve. Vietnam today is not under communism, but more accurately described as a single party dictatorship and very pro-capitalism. It is a single-party ruled dictatorship like S. Korean and Taiwan (KMT Party) were. It is forward looking and constantly changing to meet economic and social challenges of the future. It has its problems and challenges as with any developing countries.
www.forbes.com/sites/salvatorebabones/2018/01/15/vietnam-is-following-the-asian-tiger-currency-formula-for-rapid-economic-growth/#518d77a4bed0
The economic path above cannot be achieved for a developing country under so called "democracy" due to political interference from the various elites.
english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/195916/does-vietnam-s-future-depend-on-middle-class-development-.html
When Vietnam has reached the economic level of what S. Korea was back in the 90's and strenghtened its institutions, then maybe it will be ready for major political change. Vietnam is not quite ready yet.
Dan Kann ; you’re right with the responsible comments.
@@AnhTuan-pp3iq most important thing in a diplomacy is whether you have strength to take initiative, either in military strength or in global economy, which is pretty unfortunate for you guys since you have neither.
I served a year at PHU CAT AFB in 1969, in Nam , we had 30 F4's . we were the next base south of DANANG. a year I will never forget.
My supervisor was there as a Weapons Loader on F-4. 12hr shifts all the time. I joined in 1980 and met him in Lakenheath, England USAF 1983 48 EMS Armament shop.. He did not want to go back to the states-the way the vets were being treated. I did 20yrs AF. Loved it !
“ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL.”
Col Neil J . Graham, 22 Nov 1967.
388th Tactical Fighter Wing Commander.
Every body is gangster til the trees start speaking Vietnamese
So true
True story Pal.
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Everybody gangster till the snow start speaking Finnish.
Underrated comment…
@@matsgranqvist9928 everyones gangster till the sand starts speaking Arabic
The Skyraiders were really valuable in Vietnam. They could loiter like crazy and get in close to their targets! In the Jet age they proved that prop aircraft could still do the job.
My grandfather flew them low and slow among the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He said the hardest thing was killing the elephants that were carrying supplies.
Prop airplanes still works for war. Low cost maintenance and perfect for the jungle warfare as CAS
I’m sure the guys on the ground loved them like the guys on the ground today love the A-10.
@@johnr8820 Nhật pháp và mỹ đã xâm chiếm Việt Nam đưa Việt Nam dag về thời kỳ đồ đồng nhưng hoà bình lập lại chúng tôi lại xây dựng lại đất nước to hơn đẹp hơn lêu lêu
@@thientranvan7992 translation?
“I don’t really need this picture frame”
What a great way to finish this excellent documentary don’t you want to buy them all a pint when you see the camaraderie shown even down to the dog it was amazing
I still have to say the Vietnamese how resourceful were they when you consider what the planes could carry
I still think the a-10 warthog is the most intimidating sounding aircraft ever made and it looks cool too. I love it when they fly low just above the tree line and circle I could see the pilot's face in the warthog I saluted him and he saluted back as he circled around me and headed back for Plattsburgh when they were opened that was a cool experience those engine sounded incredible.
I was stationed there twice in 67-68.. Aircraft maintenance. Lots of rockets and small arms fire.
Lots of cool aircraft back then.. A1's, F100's, F105's, F4's, Great footage. Thanks for posting this.
Don't forget the Navy A-4, A-6, A-7., F-8
Nice ratio of over one-in-ten dislikes on esoteric film
@@albertandrews130 TV
@Timothy Chung Cheech here - bombs and war is anti=human...EVIL
my country viet nam have mic-17, mic-18,mic-19 and mic-21
one pilot of vn with one mic-21 destroy one b52
Brave U.S. pilots and military there. Some are suffering out in the streets homeless, to this day. They did not ask for it, just wanted to be a good American. Doing the right thing, to serve their country. Much respect for them...
Oh how times have changed. It's a beautiful country and now the people are so warm and friendly. God bless them
as always, in war, war is the enemy
From Min. 22:09
That's Ed Rasimus.
Flew a tour in 66 (I think) in the "Thud" and later a tour in the F-4.
You can read about the missions, Karl Richter and last but not least old Roscoe in his books.
"When Thunder Rolled" and "Palace Cobra".
Very interesting footage I had not seen before 👍
It's great to watch these documentaries, to see what we did. It was hard to know working those 25 hr days!
You did what Nazi did in Europe
Robert I know this is an old video and you might not see this but a big thank you for your service from Tennessee.
Yes.....we know very well what they did.....They killed a lot of children.
This is the real deal. Wow amazing what you learn from these brave heroes!
My grandfather said out of about 100 missions he only flew in Vietnam a handful of times in his Douglas A-1E.
The F-4 PHantom was just so badass. With badass pilots!
Fighters make movies. Bombers make history. The F-4 did not end the War for America. B-52 bombers did..fighting the North Vietnamese Army attempting to invade the South in 1972...Then bombing the North's capital in December of that same year.
Vietnamese victory !!!!
Thats why America lose 450 f4 phantoms
Have this on dvd, love seeing the Vigalante flying off the deck, that was one big Bird.
During pilot training class of 1966 the entire class started to call themselves The flying Cossacks and had a talisman of having a Ukrainian Trident . The only American Ukrainian pilot was Steve Olek his class performed 10000 sorties with no losses , Steve Olek racked up 590 sorties during Vietnam. He's now an advisor to the Ukrainian armed forces having travelled there . There's newspapers information about the above legend and having that Trident was a lucky charm .
My prayers and respect to every one who lived and died in the Vietnam war.
I'm sorry
Armando,have you seen the children of Agent Orange?You still have a chance to make a better world.
When I joined the USAF in 1986 we had many excellent pilots and ground crew who were Vietnam, some even Korea Veterans in the unit I ended up at in Air Guard, 103D TAC Fighter Group. They had flown the 105 and rotated through Vietnam. It was the static display plane on the base. This is like seeing those guys 15 years younger.
KnoxTN Yankee bb
What do you think they remembered most bout the war?
les amerloques assassins sont quand même partis la""queue entre les jambes""après leurs saloperies ""
@@ashokiimc that's a loaded question. I like watching honest interviews and most seem to say it's the ones that didn't make it back
1986 - I was neck-deep in snow in South Korea...during Team Spirit. LOL>
Lịch sử Việt Nam thật khốc liệt!! Cảm ơn on cha ông ta đã anh dũng hi sinh để bảo vệ đất nước Việt Nam! Tự hào quá Việt Nam ơi
I have been access that bridge at 1:56. 12:05 that is Lima Co 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment 1st Marine Division my unit.
I have a good friend who served in 1/1 67-68. He worked intelligence. He was khe Shan, hue and other exciting places
Vietnamese people are so brave 🎉
my first appearance on a flightline as a crew chief to be was 1991. I knew the peace era people (fats slobs and cracked jokes), from the yuppies and the war grunts my first day. I ended up a grunt crew chief... you won't see me again. the viet nam era has my respect, it was primary war education to gulf 1. In fact the tanker we were taught on was poisoned with agent orange.I remember when our flightline officer spoke up and said we did 1500 sorties since my enlistment .I remained the youngest for 6.5 years... our flightline was VERY unwelcome place to be. I stay easy going realizing viet nam missions. Given todays tech etc... none of us will be seen again
Those screaming F4s though!!
Ja, rokende en milieu vervuilende machiene. Zag ze al van ver aankomen.
The F-104 howl!
Flown by animals
I really enjoyed this one. Thanks for sharing.
My Dad too flew an E4.221 missions out of Karat AFB Thailand.When He Came Home He never spoke of the missions he Did.I remember only pics of his tail number 13He only said bad luck for them.
Did anyone else see the oil splatter ed skyraiders? Got love CAS that can linger half the day! Thanks Sandy from Jolly
AD sky raiders were bad ass, Oil pump arm in cockpit cuz they burned as much oil as gas!
@@onthego9825 That helped keep their engines, adapted from the B-29, from overheating and catching on fire.
@@tomt373 Guy that was a partner and taught me to fly in the Citabria was a Sky raider pilot off the Kitty hawk in Nam, great pilot and super spiritual after being shot down and rescued 45 min later by a Jolly green in a small arms target shoot!
Thanks for very intressing viedeos !!!👍👍👍
Attended I of Colorado, was a cadet on AFROTC whereupon CO - Colonel Robert J Mock, was a fighter pilot in Vietnam. Boy, the stories he could tell . . . . . 🇺🇸
And how the MiGs mowed down you freaks, don't tell me?
@@user-ph9sb8tu7j , might want to brush up on your history a bit. Kill ratio in Vietnam was around 4 to 1 in favor of the Americans in air-to-air engagements.
@@user-ph9sb8tu7j rematch?
@@user-ph9sb8tu7j cute little mig 15s and 21's u didnt stand jack shit chance against the f5s and the f4s or the a4's even pathethic
@@dunnjob we had mislles hoorah
The swagger of pros. Great video.
2:45
"give the enemy no chance to rest"
Rolling Thunder wants to know your location
Fly Anything Pilot they r on them land.!! Over
Rolling thunder was a waste of air power
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 It's hindered by politics, you dont do politics during a war... you do that after winning it...
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 That is because politicians had their way, as usual. In fact, Rolling Thunder, if allowed to continue, would have forced Hanoi to sue for peace. Ho Chi Minh himself said as much post-war. Presidential U.S election criteria fucked it up.... Luckily, for us all, Germany's politicians caused their forces to suffer massive defeats culminating in complete collapse of all German forces in WW2. The more the involvement of inept politicians, the greater the chance of defeat for their respective countries.
@@thundercrosssplitattack2064 Perfectly worded. You nailed it.
Was a grunt in 1971. We loved the F4. We had their support a few times when we needed their fire power.
@Black Pill respect your elders
Fas' Movers! (RVN '70 - '71)
@@djhaloeight Godbless Vietnam🇻🇳
Lt Richter that was interviewed went on and flew another 98 missions after his 1st 100 missions (he could have gone home after 100). He was killed on that 198th mission.
Lt Richter "if we don't stop communism here, we wait until it hit Australia"... The man would be sick if he saw his country today.
Damn, R.I.P.
@Bernard de Fontaines Lt Richter wasn't Australian either... Why i said he would be sick if he saw HIS country today.
I look at all that amazing military technology and all the brave dedicated and highly skilled military personell, and all I can think is what a terrible waste that war was. In the end it accomplished nothing.
IRON TRIANGLE: Chou-Chi La Drang and another mudhole made the triangle when you had bombs to dump and no where to put them they dropped on Chou -chi and Hobo Woods. Shell fire always 3-4 round and aircraft would drop on em and see nothing. A 105 in a cave. 355 miles of interconnecting tunnels made over 50 years. Tanks were hidden there and a complete hospital underground and close to Saigon. 52 strikes could bury them alive but only a portion of the tunnels.
I was on the Vam-Co river from Ben Luc to Tra Cu...with the RVN Navy.. no one told us what was in Cu Chi...when I found out years later I wished we had shot more CS gas in there..could have flushed out some more action...WTFO!
FANTASTIC !
Spent my tour in 1970 loading munitions on the F4 load napalm, 500 lb, bombs ,CBUs, missiles loved to watch the F4 take off at night with afterburners awesome sight. Great fighter
He was paid for his job. So to call it service is disingenuous.
@@drewmillz1 he was still doing a very dangerous job that he may not have even wanted to do I feel as if he should be thanked for that because when he got back home he sure as hell wasn’t
Yeah sure knowing they ll go to bomb civilians with their napalm what a joy to see did have you wet underwear?
@@drewmillz1 Your full of BS ! I did 20 yrs AF (weapons loader) and never payed over time...Because I did the job as a Patriot and love of country.
I like the Vietnam era armaments and planes,those items could be found on duty in philippines,Vietnam era plane on services in Philippines
Not to mention small firearms such as the m14, m21, and m16 rifles.
Support firearms such as the m79 break-action grenade launcher and M60 machine gun.
Armored equipment such as the M113 amphibious APCs is also still very prominent in active duty across various Mindanao incursions.
The M35 multipurpose troop carrier as well as the M105 howitzer is the backbone of the Philippine military.
The OV 10 bronco was the main attack aircraft used during the Marawi siege.
Tôi đã quen rồi chuyển đi, và quen xa, ánh đèn phố thị. Nên dẫu mùa xuân đơn vị, không bánh ngọt ko ko rượu quy, tôi nào nghe thấy lạnh trong Tim
To all my instructors and flyers who educated me on what to do and how to do it. You were our heroes and our mentors - thank you for your dedication and support that help me become a better pilot and officer, my heart is with you all (many of you have died already defending our country).
May God bless all of you because you gave me a reason to live or to fight. Peace be with you all, Ciao, L (118 combat missions).
118 missions! Wow. I bet you've some fascinating stories to tell Sir.
@@mikejohnson5900 Hi Mike, thank you for the nice words. I was very lucky. What I went through is nothing compared to our elders (soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines) who fought in the previous wars. All wars are bad, but I would say that Vietnam was worse because of the rejection and the betrayal that many of our Veteran suffered upon their return/repatriation/release... Let's not forget what all those Veterans fought for, stood for, and made the ultimate sacrifice for... May God bless America, Peace be with you Mike, Ciao, L
@@lancelot1953 I agree
I believe it’s pathetic how lots of our country treated these hero’s who just went through hell and back for America
I want to join the marines or army when I’m old enough I have great respect for our brave men and women 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@captainsimbadog8347 Hi CaptainSimbaDog, I encourage you to join the military - In my days (I am a Baby Boomer), it was a fact of life that we, teenagers, were all going to serve the country a couple of years as part of "growing up". The training that I got was incredible and gave me utmost respect for our country and what it stands for. It meant so much to me that I made a career out of it. As for you, since you are young, I would recommend that you attend college and request a commission in the military as an officer. If you have a chance, apply to the service academies (West Point, Naval Academy, Air Force...). As far as Army vs. Marines, I would say that the Marines have a harder life (in my days at least) but the connection that Marines share across the ranks is unique/second to none; once a Marine, always a Marine (Semper Fi!). Good luck to you and Peace be with you, Ciao, L
@@lancelot1953 thanks for the advice
Have a good day sir
Hardly a secret,let alone a"dirty"one.
Every time i was alone on Daytona. I had the chair force peckin away at me baby. Here for yall
F4 was still doing "wild Weasel" missions into 1996.
Kurnass, the last of the Spooks.
Why I thought we won that war until we pulled out
@@adamsimpson3807 general Giap agrees with you. He was calling his field operations back north when Walter Cronkite said “this war is lost on live tv.
Giap heard this and decided to fight the war using our own media.
It’s in his writings and books
@@trespire F-4F Ice was the last Phantom II used not the Kurnass 2000 last I knew
That's surprising, though, I suppose the North Vietnamese didn't follow the peace agreement either.
Vietnam ❤ india ❤
Love from India
FANFEST Việt nam Number 1.
Thank you !! Love and support 🇮🇳 from Vietnam 😘
@@athocuibap1910 Chả liên quan -_-
All Du DU liên quan qá đi chứ
🇻🇳Thank you❤
I kind of hate it when people say "we didn't belong there" or "we had no business fighting in Vietnam" etc.
As an ethnic Thai, and an amateur historian, the "Domino Effect" was very real. Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Burma (Myanmar) all became communists after the fall of South Vietnam. Millions would die in the "Killing Fields" / political purges of Cambodia, and countless thousands would become refugees. I was really young at the time, but it seemed that even though Americans didn't appreciate the warfighters that served in Vietnam, my parents showed me why Thai people should be grateful. Just because all of the dominoes didn't fall, doesn't mean the threat wasn't real. History moves on, and people's memories are short. I don't know if current Thai folks even know the sacrifice that Americans made to fight communist aggression. I'm certain, going through the American school system, that it isn't taught at all in grade school, or even college.
Why we were there? I guess that's up to how you want to interpret the Truman Doctrine. We had our fill in Korea, We didn't use it in Europe, when the Soviet Union stomped all over the Hungarians or the Czechs. We decided that Cuba was going to be a special case. But we decided to get involved in South Vietnam, then proceeded to fight it in a backwards manner.
My respect goes to those who served, fought, were wounded, captured, and those who died in service to their country, the United States of America. May God Bless you all. I have little respect for the politicians and leaders who seemingly wasted their efforts and lives, and other valuable resources in a war they hampered the warfighter from winning. The lesson that many generals learned and would later employ during the First Gulf War is that if you are going to fight a war, fight to win, or don't fight it at all.
Shut up ladyboy! You people from thailand are all sellouts known in Asia known for being bitches for the western powers and sell their 🐱 you know we have f..ked you and the cambod in the past thats why yall so salty.. weak ass people🇻🇳
Just loved those AE Skyraiders, called them Spads.
God Bless America! Although We didn't belong there (in hindsight), it was a helluva ride. I was at Kadena AB in '79 and heard stories from my elder Security Police buddies who had been at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. We had the F-4s at Kadena AB (later F-15s added) and it was interesting watching them do touch and goes at night with their after burners on (and SR-71s Habu, too) and land with their drag chutes on...I've been to Vietnam as a tourist but watched the first TV war as a kid and saw some early casualties at Saint Albans Naval Hospital (Queens NY) as my sister was born there in 1965. All memories now...
The United States, along with their allies (The Republic of Vietnam, South Korean, Australian, Thailand, New Zealand), lost about 12,500 aircraft, helicopters and UAVs.
North Vietnam lost 150 - 170 aircraft and helicopters.
To be fair the north didnt g
Have a ton of aircraft most allied air assets fell to ground to air missles
For the Vietnam Communists, 150 aircrafts were a huge of military assets !At most they have 300 aircrafts donated by Soviet Union & China
@@jagdpanther2224 I think that is fairly obvious. And your point is? They still won overall. Beat the French, beat the US.
@@elzorro7of9 but the losses of the vietcong was mind boggling sure they were a determined and very disaplende group of people with a will that couldn't easily be broken with all the air support and death from above they choose to go under ground and not let their spirit be broken most society's couldn't take that constant bombing on a daily basis
@@elzorro7of9 is usa not in control of the world still? Hows vietnam doing today? Yeah Vietnam sure did win... lol
My dad was stationed at Danang with the 366th TFW aka The Gunfighters. They were the first unit to add gun pods to the F4 Phantom...
Incredible footage I’ve never seen before. Lost my uncle in Vietnam, he was shot down in his F105 and not recovered until the 90s.
Grateful for his sacrifice, and so is our country
Glad You got Him "back"....
it's an honour to have read bout him n known of his sacrifice. cheers lad
Woooo Hoooo another dead yank that murdered many women and children
@@lenholloway4390 No were near the number women and children the VC and NVA murdered. Like the 5000 people they massacred in Hue before the Tet offensive.
The F-4 is an absolute beast. The sound of them training close to where I grew up still brings back fond memories.
That black smoke also!
I flew the F-4E 1983-87 in the 3TFS at Clark AB, Philippines. We had old heads with good ‘Nam stories. Learned more about tactical flying at the bar than in the class room. The Rhino was a cool jet, but it was hard to be an expert in all dedicated tasks. Interdiction, CAS, Offensive counter air, Nukes, and precision guided munitions (Pave Tack and GBU-15). Our Squadron was a jack all trades-master of none. But man, it was fun to be young and flying jets back in the day.
Thank our Vets for EVERYTHING.
thank ypu for agent orange in my hdmi cord and starbucks lid
looks fantastic. Thx for Uploading
We had no business being in SEA BUT THESE MEN ARE TRULY PROFESSIONALS.
They are a rare breed.
Profesionals for killing
innocent people around the world. Fu.k american imperia....
24:49 -- *Lt Karl W. Richter* (the pilot who wanted to stay for another 100 missions) *was killed in combat on July 28, 1967.* I'm not sure if they covered this fact in the documentary (I stopped it at 26:04, and wrote this comment while it was still on my mind because I just happened to know that he died in Vietnam after volunteering for a second tour). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_W._Richter
Thank you. I wondered if he made it home.
Sad to hear he didn't make it.
I knew lieutenant Carl r i c h t e r when he was home on his last leave and when he signed up when he told me he signed up for another 100 missions I didn't understand too much about the war I did follow it as much as we could get on TV but to have seen all these videos of the f10500 Chiefs I understand so well Hawaii chose to do another 100 missions he loved what he did I wish you would have came back home for another leave I know I would have loved to see him again I did see him when his body came home to his house in his glass covered top part casket I I felt so bad I think we could have had a relationship I know we could have if he would have just came home again for even a short while bye KARL
A true American hero ! We should never forget these heroes !
Godspeed to him!
My uncle Dewayne was a pilot during the Vietnam War in 1966. He told me once that when he was over a population area they all had a stink bomb they could drop and the smell was so awful that the civilians would run for it. I don’t know if that’s true or not.
The air commandos, jolly green CSAR - we need a movie dedicated to the craziest bunch of pilots that ever flew - the most dangerous mission in history of combat.. Diller, Hudson couple of sandy pilots 602SOS 69-70 NKP - cholly cholly yu no 1! Those pilots fought in their own mess, unlike jet strikes - the 602SOS fought in the napalm it dropped, the sights, the smells those were some hard core pilots dedicated to getting their fellow airmen out from behind enemy lines. Love to do a movie with real A-1s, no CGI crap - real airplanes.
I wonder if in today's arming of fighter jets if the ground crew uses hydraulic hoists to load the rocket pods and sidewinder missiles up to the brackets under each wing? When the weather is super hot and the crew are handling live munitions mistakes can and do happen. So to protect against such potential accidents from happening and to also protect the crew members, the ground crew and the fighter jets, introduce machinery into the mix to make these guys work much easier and safer.
They have. During the battle of midway up to 60% of torpedoes did that hit targets had not armed and did not explode. This was due to poor handling, service and maintenance. They learned the lessons the very hardest way
I keep expecting the narrator to say, “Next week, on: Mannix....”
Yep!
God Bless our Vietnam Vets and thank you for your service
My father did 2 tours in nam, retired 20 yrs as jet n prop mech and instructors in SAC
Target nompenh, line lao-vietnam, vc living in hole.
The war between the demons from North America and the heroic Vietnamese. Respect and be grateful for the wonderful Vietnamese pilots, the pride of the country.
Thanks for posting this vid!!!
I love this documentary, it's very intriguing! Just finish watching it Friday 10-15-2021 at 8:50 pm. But, only the only bad thing about this war American shouldn't be involved in this kind of war. It's not their war, a lot innocent people died and also a huge amount Americans died in this catostrophic Vietnam war! Have A Blessed Weekends Everybody!
Jet fighter footage is amazing
Being so outnumbered by the VC & NVA Only air support kept the US in the war.
I been watching this. Jazz wish. Good. On. You. In. Family. God Bless
Beautiful film !
how
Humble professionals who were doing what they were ordered to do. Some were family men, others were not. Some believed in what they were doing, some did not. These men all shared two things in common however, the love of flying and a devotion to duty. Thank you to my dad who flew a total of 154 missions and to these brave men.
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ur dad loves killing viet cong
Salute to your Dad!
154 nhiệm vụ trong chiến tranh Việt Nam? Anh ấy là kẻ giết người hàng loạt
It's incredible how much the technology has advanced which resulted in a completely different aerial warfare tactics and procedures. During the Vietnam War, if you wanted to take out a specific strategic target, a bridge or a fuel warehouse, war planers had to send a whole strike package to execute the mission. This included the Wild weasels to suppress air defense. Than you had to have a few of the air fighters defending the strike package from an enemy's aircraft. And last but nit the least you had to send multiple tactical bombers with dozens upon dozens of 500-1000 pound bombs to saturate the target. And after all that you could miss the target but you've sent dozens of aircraft and put dozens of pilots in mortal danger...
Today you send a single stealth bomber and destroy 20 different targets with pin point precision in a single mission...
エルサルバドルが所得税等ゼロの未来都市「ビットコインシティー」建設へ
ビットコイン裏付デジタル国債発行で1100億円調達
エルサルバドル共和国のナジブ・ブケレ大統領が、世界で初となる「ビットコインシティー
(ビットコイン都市)」の建設をすすめると発表した。2022年にビットコインに裏付けられた
10億ドル分(約1140億円)の10年債を発行して建設費等をまかなう。同国で開催された
ビットコインウィークという大型イベントで大統領が発表した。
また所得税、キャピタルゲイン税、不動産税、給与税、地方税をゼロとし、海外のテクノロジー
企業を誘致する。10％の消費税以外は無税となる見通しで、大胆な優遇税制で
「中南米のシンガポール」を目指す。
また同国に資金を投ずる投資家には永住権や帰化も容易にする。
@@senasakura345 WTF?. Do you really think I can read Japanese.
Đấy là những thước phim từ một phía còn thực tế ở chỗ tôi may bay này đã bị bắn hạ bởi súng trường k44 cũ kĩ
@@sonha9741 🤡
@@sonha9741 lol. Shooting fighter jets flying twice the speed of sound with bolt action rifle.
What a wide variety of aircraft and ordnance.
Was it the Phanton that in the sales push was represented with a silhouette of the plane with the word `peacemaker ` underneath?
31:27 Goose's dad!!!
11:19 this is how the Great power become great!!
We became great in 1776
@@davidathey7903 yeh! Whole world knows it.
@@davidathey7903 what about slavery
@@WaldoCastles what about it? The USA wasn’t the first country to have slavery a major part of its economy. Some countries still have slavery today. Is the the USA’s fault too still? We fought over the disagreement of slavery and abolished it. Is that difficult to figure out and move on from? My family has never owned slaves.
It is rather.... a failed attempt of the devils to impose their controls over others!! Shame shame shame
Seanggun warna senja menyapa
Bersambut musim yang dijalani
Semoga bintang penuh harapan
Mencoba tuk terangi dalam gelapnya malam.
My uncle Jack flew the F4 phantom in Vietnam, I was about 10 yrs old and in awe, when he got leave he'd be at my grandparents house on holidays, I always wanted to ask questions but he didn't talk about it, thank God for our military and the men and women who sacrifice so much for our country. 🇺🇸🙏
What did your uncle fight in Vietnam for?
@@InnovateIQ1987đến giết người Việt Nam trong khi Việt Nam không có nhu cầu chiến tranh đã phá nát đất nước và cướp đi rất nhiều Sinh mạng vô tội .hoa kỳ quá ác độc . mà vẫn tự hào được . mệt mỏi
MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FIGHTER PLANE --- THE f4 PHANTOM
Really, and what about MiG-21PFM ,"the phantoms thunder"?
This made even Rambo became girly
Yes,Rambo finally got to win for U.s.a. Shame,shame.
I'd be interested to know what year this was filmed.
A/R ON F 4's @spangdalem,Germany. One badass machine