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Originally posted by mic
What punisment received this B-52 pilots who attack civilian targets and kill a lot of people with napalm in Vietnam, I think only appolgy from Macknamara recently.
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Well...I do not know any thing about this specific incident.
I can tell you that it is estimated that millions of South Vietnamese civilians (a bigger loss than North Vietnamese civilians) lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
Non combatants are always killed in war, intentionally and unintentionally. This was a full blown war with the military of conflicting Nations engaged in battle.
In this kind of war civilians often become intentional targets and we targeted civilians in some instances in both Vietnam and Korea on a far lesser scale, than we did during the Second World War.
I can also tell you that I personally know that many of our soldiers were Court Martialed for War Crimes, ranging from rape, murder, killing detainees, and POW's and etc.