-Over 15,000 bridges destroyed by bombing.
-10 million cubic meters of dikes destroyed by bombing.
-Over 3,700 US fixed-wing aircraft lost.
-36,125,000 US helicopter sorties during the war; over 10,000 helicopters were lost or severely damaged.
-26 million bomb craters created, the majority from B-52s (a B-52 bomb crater could be 20 feet deep, and 40 feet across).
-39 million acres of land in Indochina (or 91 percent of the land area of South Vietnam) were littered with fragments of bombs and shells, equivalent to 244,000 (160-acre) farms, or an area the size of all New England except Connecticut.
-21 million gallons (80 million liters) of extremely poisonous chemicals (herbicides) were applied in 20,000 chemical spraying missions between 1961 and 1970 in the most intensive use of chemical warfare in human history, with as many as 4.8 million Vietnamese living in nearly 3,200 villages directly sprayed by the chemicals.
-24 percent, or 16,100 square miles, of South Vietnam was sprayed, an area larger than the states of Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island combined, killing tropical forest, food crops, and inland forests.
-Over 500,000 Vietnamese have died from chronic conditions related to chemical spraying with an estimated 650,000 still suffering from such conditions; 500,000 children have been born with Agent Orange-induced birth defects, now including third generation offspring.
-Nearly 375,000 tons of fire-balling napalm was dropped on villages.
-Huge Rome Plows (made in Rome, Georgia), 20-ton earthmoving D7E Caterpillar tractors, fitted with a nearly 2.5-ton curved 11-foot-wide attached blade protected by 14 additional tons of armor plate, scraped clean between 700,000 and 750,000 acres (1,200 square miles), an area equivalent to Rhode Island, leaving bare earth, rocks, and smashed trees.
-As many as 36,000,000 total tons of ordinance expended from aerial and naval bombing, artillery, and ground combat firepower. On an average day U.S. artillery expended 10,000 rounds costing $1 million per day; 150,000-300,000 tons of UXO remain scattered around Southeast Asia: 40,000 have been killed in Vietnam since the end of the war in 1975, nearly 70,000 injured, and 20,000 Laotians have been killed or injured since the end of the war
-7 billion gallons of fuel were consumed by U.S. forces during the war.
-If there was space for all 6,000,000 names of Southeast Asian dead on the Vietnam Wall in Washington, DC, it would be over 9 sobering miles long, or nearly 100 times its current 493-foot length."20
This carnage was encouraged by the diabolically evil Henry Kissinger, then Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. "Kill anything that moves" he once told General Alexander Haig.21
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