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From: ferguson@x102c.harris-atd.com (ferguson ct 71078)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bombing accuracy in the Gulf
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.012558.28529@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 29 Jun 91 01:25:58 GMT
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From: ferguson@x102c.harris-atd.com (ferguson ct 71078)
In article <1991Jun27.013820.28408@cbnews.cb.att.com> Davidch@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (David Chowller) writes:
>
>I heard on PBS's program "After the War" (with Bill Moyers) that 70% of
>the bombs dropped in the Gulf missed their targets.  

I heard a similar statistic this week in a PBS series about Viet Nam.
The show claimed that the USAF estimated that 20% of the bombs dropped
in Viet Nam did not explode.  Since there were more bombs dropped in
VN than in all of WWII, that is a lot of unexploded hardware.  The
show claimed that there is a thriving cottage industry in Cambodia in
finding and removing unexploded bombs.  I don't remember the name of
the program but it was about some VN-era photojournalist travelling
down the Ho Chi Min trail.

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