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From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov
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Subject: Re: Air losses in the Gulf
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Date: 3 Apr 91 17:06:00 GMT
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From: smpod@venus.lerc.nasa.gov

In BXR307@CSC.ANU.EDU.AU writes...
>[According to a paper given] by a Dr. John McCarthy on "Air Power as History".  
>... During the "Rolling Thunder" air
>campiagn in Vietnam in 1972, the United States lost more than 900 aircraft
>to North Vietnam defences.

I find this loss hard to  believe since Rolling Thunder was a campaign over
North Vietnam that lasted only a few weeks.  Most U.S. air losses were rotary-
wing losses over South Vietnam.   Are there any references that would confirm
the 900 losses?