Talk:Bạch Mai Hospital

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The story of the 1972 bombing differs from that presented in the current version of the Operation Linebacker II article, which states:

On the 22nd, a wing of the Bach Mai Hospital, located in the southern suburbs of Hanoi, was struck by a stick of bombs from a B-52. The reason for this was that the B-52 in question had been hit by a surface to air missile (SAM) fired by a North Vietnamese SAM battery site. The civilian deaths were criticized by the North Vietnamese and U.S. peace activists. The hospital sat 1 kilometer from the runway of Bach Mai Airfield and a major fuel storage facility was only 180 metres (200 yd) away. While the patients of the hospital wing had been evacuated from the city, 28 doctors, nurses and pharmacists were killed. Two days before Christmas, SAC added SAM sites and airfields to the target list. Air Force F-111s were sent in before the bombers to strike the airfields and reduce the threat of enemy fighters. The F-111s proved so successful in these operations that their mission for the rest of the campaign was shifted to SAM site suppression.

Can we determine which version of the story is the correct one, then get the stories between the two articles to match?

173.88.246.138 (talk) 16:04, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The lead paragraph looks like a mess, seems like a bunch of desperate facts just shoved all up in there. Does anyone have any objections to me deleting a lot of these and formating this in to an actual paragraph? SP00KYtalk 01:45, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]