was keeping our illegal bombings (a total of more than a hundred thousand tons of bombs dropped) secret from Congress & the American people; & the Pentagon was falsifying the records of our raids.
Seven million tons of bombs had not destroyed Vietnam; they had if anything unified it.
During the blitz thousands of tons of bombs rained down on London.
The US dropped more than 6m tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
In all, an estimated 5,000 tons of bombs, depth charges and small-arms ammunition were concentrated there.
During the first four months of 1945, the Allies dropped 471,000 tons of bombs on German cities, twice as much as in all of 1943.
The U.S. Eighth Air Force followed the next day with another 400 tons of bombs and carried out yet another raid by 210 bombers on February 15.
These were soon replaced by faster biplanes, particularly the twin-engined Gotha G.IV and the huge, four-engined Staaken R.VI, which carried two tons of bombs.
In 30,000 missions over four years, they dumped 23,000 tons of bombs on the German invaders, ultimately helping to chase them back to Berlin.
World War II saw the use of larger bombs in much greater numbers; more than 1.5 million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on Germany alone.
In the years of the first Nixon administration, 1969 through 1972, the United States dropped four million tons of bombs on Indochina, and lost 20,492 American lives.
