Air Power And The Fight For Khe Sanh [Illustrated Edition]【電子書籍】[ Bernard C. Nalty ]

＜p＞Includes 60 photos and 7 maps and charts＜br /＞ The 1968 fight for Khe Sanh pitted some 6,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Rangers against an enemy force roughly three times as large. For more than 70 days North Vietnamese troops maintained pressure on Khe Sanh's defenders, who had dug in around the base's airstrip. The original purpose for deploying the Marines and South Vietnamese into the northwest corner of South Vietnam was to block Communist troop movements along Highway 9 toward Quang Tri City and the heavily populated coastal areas. When U.S. intelligence detected large enemy forces assembling near Khe Sanh, the senior American commander in Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, ordered the Marines to hold the base.＜br /＞ During the siege that followed, U.S. strike aircraft rained nearly 100,000 tons of munitions down upon the North Vietnamese while other planesーprimarily U.S. Air Force transportsーflew in essential supplies of food, ammunition, and other necessities to K．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る