COMRADES IN ARMS: How the Ameri-Cong won the Viet Nam War against the Common Enemy:America

摘要

Lies about casualties Even the most astonishing lies of the enemy were of no interest to a cynical press who doubted all allied body counts of the enemy dead in South Viet Nam. CBS's David Schoenbrun called them "ludicrous." After "Junction City" operations in February 1967, official North Vietnamese accounts alleged 13,500 Americans and South Vietnamese dead. The actual number was 282.While casualties in the North from U.S. bombing were radically exaggerated and peace groups might claim a U.S. campaign of genocide in the north, Hanoi's official figure suggested otherwise, perhaps 2,000 killed in all of 1967.