Talk:Operation Rolling Thunder

message: Aren't any figures concerning casualties (in air-planes, civilian lives, ...) available? --Malbi 19:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figures 

message: I possess 8 x 20 minutes of Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) "Combat Audio Recordings" appropriate as links from Rolling Thunder, F-105, Wild Weasel but likely would require an extensive description of the jargon used, and the actions taking place.
I have little skill in the functioning of these pages, so cannot personally create the insertions.
As a veteran of ORT I believe that Dori's contribution (above) is functionally accurate.  With a single exception, I have seen no detailed military records of aircraft lost, bombs dropped, military or civilians killed on either side.  It is possible that these estimates were intentionally suppressed. (I believe 334 F-105 lost in combat to be an logical figure.) 
User:Spoongap
Losses were NOT "intentionally suppressed, as anyone who lived during the war will remember. The news reported every loss in painful detail just as they do today in Iraq ("the 594th aircraft lost in North Vietnam"). The figures are available on this site, under the "list of aircraft losses" shown near the bottom of the main article. There is a dearth of information regarding casualties on the ground, but tonnages, aircraft losses, personnel losses--all of that is "out there" in many places. I too am a USAF Vietnam vet. --Buckboard 09:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: COMBAT AUDIO RECORDING

message: I like the recent addition of a lot of citations to books, but aren't there more online resources to link to?  If someone were to read some of the declassified CIA docs and so forth with info on Rolling Thunder and link directly to those that would be great, instead of relying all on inaccessible books.
Wsacul 18:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online External Links and Citations 

message: Let me see if I remember correctly, Lyndon Johnson was president, which means that he was the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces. The policies that you refer to were military decisions. Those decisions were wrong and the campaign failed. Thats not a defeat? The Joint Chiefs, the president's chief military advisors, agreed with the president (although they may have held differing opinions among themselves). The problem with assigning blame only to the political decisionmaking process during the conflict is that it is incorrect. The chiefs were responsible for the decisions that they made - or endorsed. And they endorsed every decision that Johnson made. I do not remember the chiefs lining up to resign their positions in protest over the administration's decisions. This problem with the U.S. military high command has not gone away with time, unfortunately. RM Gillespie 02:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is amazing how the military powers-that-be have still largely avoided taking their share of the blame for such policy failures during the war. It's always nice to be able to blame someone else, I guess, even for policies that you generally supported.--172.190.10.146 (talk) 04:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Policy or military failure?

message: Images :Image:RT6.jpg and :Image:RTSAM.jpg were uploaded by User:RM Gillespie here on en in January 2007. These were moved to commons in November 2007 because they were marked public domain. However, they were deleted from commons in March 2008, from what I can tell because the specific source was unknown. (:Image:AAAA.jpg, on the contrary, includes a specific source, but has not yet been moved to commons.) RT6.jpg included the caption "Hanoi petroleum storage site, 30 June 1966." and RTSAM.jpg included "RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance aircraft catches fire after SA-2 Guideline detonation." I've left a note for RMG. If anyone else knows where the RT6 or RTSAM images came from originally, they can be restored here and/or at commons. Gimmetrow 05:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two images 

message: Under SAMs and Wild Weasels it says:
"During 1967 U.S. losses totaled 248 aircraft (145 Air Force, 102 Navy, and one Marine Corps).[77]"
and later:
"During 1967, the second full year of Rolling Thunder operations, 362 U.S. aircraft had been lost over North Vietnam. (208 Air Force, 142 Navy, and 12 Marine Corps).[82]"
That's quite a difference and confusing since both figures are stated within the same section only paragraphs away without pointing out the discrepancies (different sources with differing counting systems?) Is the year correct?
Holger Göbber 84.154.45.22 (talk) 19:03, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a guess, but the latter figure sounds like a cumulative total perhaps misinterpreted during compilation into this article.  Can someone check the references? Thewellman (talk) 19:36, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction in aircrafts lost 1967?

message: American bombs don't kill innocent people, those people were liberated and deserved it. Heck they're grateful for the blessed motherland to liberating their savage asses. American bombs are designed only to kill evil people, so if you died, you were evil. Get it.
Now let me state this, right, them here. This article is a sham. A bloody outrage to the soldiers who served in this fine defense forces, and you should be ashamed of writing such nonsense. This is a commie, liberal lie that is being spread and I for one won't stand for it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.246.138 (talk) 06:46, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Bombs don't kill innocents. 

message: Something is wrong with this article.  I distinctly remember reading (earlier 2009) in this article details about how the Rules of Engagement (ROE) imposed by then-president Lyndon B. Johnson change the targets and plans of the airstrike in the beginning.  Did someone delete this?--99.253.227.126 (talk) 07:08, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, things were certainly micromanaged quite a bit, but it wouldn't have made much difference in the end, regardless of how resentful many military men became of their civilian bosses meddling.--172.190.10.146 (talk) 04:38, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules of Engagement by LBJ 

message: As the heading states, I think the word 'ballsack' as it appears under the picture of the F105s was placed there mischievously.
71.204.26.16 (talk) 05:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title photograph text has been vandalized? 

message: The section on "opposition" to Rolling Thunder contains far too many self-serving arguments from Johnson Adminstration officials. It also attempts to shift responsibility and blame totally to the military. Worse yet, the stories as told seem to inevitably trace back excOr lusively to the politicians themselves as the only sources. Robert McNamara's idea that he could simultaniously create Rolling Thunder, run Rolling Thunder and be a man of peace opposed to Rolling Thunder deserves to be questioned. Or at least attributed directly to him as the only source.
I think the section should really be rewritten to focus on actual opposition to the Operation rather than the supposed covert opposition of people to the war at the top of the Johnson Administration. 70.234.253.42 (talk) 02:51, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with the Opposition section 

message: Per request at WP:RFPP, I have protected this page from editing (only semi-protection at this point as only IP users have been participating in the edit-war). Parties to the edit war are requested to discuss their edits and attempt to reach consensus. Reminder: arguments should be based on what reliable sources state, and original research is unacceptable. Rami R 08:08, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation's result 

message: Your photo on opening page of F-105s dropping 3000 lb bombs through overcast on signal from B-66
seems inappropriate for a 3.5 year campaign of VISUAL DAYLIGHT DIVE BOMBING by F-105s in trail one after another releasing six 750 or five 1000lb bombs rippled to visually hit some heavily defended designated target. 
76.7.106.210 (talk) 22:11, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  PHOTO LEVEL BOMBING 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I find it very unlikely that only 30,000 casualties arose from this bombing campaign. Can someone look into this please?
On the Vietnam War page, it says North Vietnam/Vietcong had over 800,000 military casualties and some ~100,000 civilian casualties. I find it very hard to believe that only 30,000 between those two figures came from aerial bombardment. 24.60.59.171 (talk) 20:44, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You are welcome to look into it yourself and if you find RS for different figures you can add those in. Mztourist (talk) 05:30, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casualties?