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RE: Carpet Bombing
Soviet
documents in their archives stated that they oppossed the missions on the dam
and that they were quite successful in defending it, both with AAA and with
MIGs. Then again, it is very hard to believe everything that one
reads.
Danz
In a
message dated 11/23/2001 7:35:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, AMPSOne@aol.com
writes:
Also the Suiho Dam mission was virtually unopposed: reason was
(a) US was
just so darn good it scared Chinese and Soviet pilots to not
take on the
armada being used or
Cookie,
Have
you seen any Soviet explanation why they did
not send up MIGs to challenge
the US bombing over
Suiho Dam? It was certainly within their area of
protection.
Was there any AA fire from the ground? Did the US
lose any
planes on those two days' mission?
My guess is that the Soviet leaders
made
a political decision over that crisis. They were probably
afraid
of igniting a WW III. If they sent up one hundred fifty of
their MIGs to
meet the hundreds of US air armada, that
could have resulted in the
biggest air fight in history--
resulting in great loss and exposing the
Russians'
participation in the war.
John 2