U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Operations and Readiness.
Hearings before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee,
Senate Armed Services Committee, May 9-10, 1966. iii, 70 pp.
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U.S. Tactical Air Power Program.
Hearings before the
Senate Armed Services Committee, May 14-June 6, 1966. iii, 240 pp.
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Air War Against North Vietnam. Very important hearings, August 9-29,
1967, before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, Senate
Armed Services Committee.
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The text has been placed online by Hathi Trust.
Part 1, Admiral Ulysses S.G. Sharp, CINCPAC, August 9 and 10
Part 2, General Earle Wheeler and Lt. Gen. William W. Momyer, August 16
Part 3, Gen John P. McConnell, and Admiral T. H. Moorer, August 22 and 23
Part 4, Secretary of Defense Robet McNamara, August 25
Part 5, General Harold K. Johnson, General Wallace M. Greene, and Major General (ret.) Gilbet L. Meyers, August 28 and 29
Bombing Operations and the Prisoner-of-War Rescue Mission in North Vietnam. Hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, November 24, 1970. iii, 48 pp. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird testified about U.S. air actions, including recent air strikes in North Vietnam, and the unsuccessful effort to rescue POWs from Son Tay in North Vietnam. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
Close Air Support. Hearings before the Special
Subcommittee on Close
Air Support, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, Senate Armed
Services Committee, October 22-November 8, 1971. ii + 484 pp.
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Full Committee Hearing and Consideration of H. Res. 918, A Resolution of Inquiry Concerning the Bombing in Vietnam by the United States Government. Hearing of the House Committee on Armed Services, April 18, 1972, in response to a resolution submitted by Representative Bella Abzug (D-NY), a conspicuous dove on Vietnam, asking a variety of questions about the war, not all of them dealing with the air war. H.A.S.C. No. 92-44. pp. 9037-9176. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University, in three parts: pp. 9037-9086, pp. 9087-9136, pp. 9137-9176.
On unauthorized bombing of North Vietnam by the USAF. General John D. Lavelle was dismissed as commander of Seventh Air Force in 1972, charged with falsification of reports in regard to "protective reaction" air strikes against North Vietnam. In 2009, the Air Force decided that he had been the victim of an injustice; a new Senate hearing on this will probably be held in late 2010 or 2011. See also General John D. Lavelle under private sector publications on the air war.
Unauthorized Bombing of Military Targets in North Vietnam.
Hearings June 12, 1972, before the Special Subcommittee on Armed
Services Investigations, House Armed Services Committee. ii + 52 pp.
The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
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Nomination of Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, USN, for Reappointment
as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Hearings before the Senate Armed Services
Committee, June 22-29, 1972. 24 pp. The main focus was on
protective reaction, Lavelle, and related matters.
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Nomination of John D. Lavelle, General Creighton W. Abrams, and
Admiral John S. McCain. Hearings before the Senate Armed
Services Committee, September 11-22, 1972. iii, 507, ii pp. In the portion of this dealing with General Lavelle (pp. 1-99), he was
not being considered for a position, only for a rank. He had been a General (four stars) as commander of Seventh Air Force. He had been
forced into retirement as a Major General (two stars). The committee was considering whether his retired rank should be increased to
Lieutenant General (three stars).
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Unauthorized Bombing of Military Targets in North Vietnam.
Report of December 15, 1972, by the Special Subcommittee on Armed
Services Investigations, House Armed Services Committee. iii + 12
pp. Quite favorable to General Lavelle. The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project
at Texas Tech University.
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Problems of War Victims in Indochina, Part III: North Vietnam. Hearings of the
Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, August 16,
17, 1972. iii + 195 pp. A lot of discussion of whether U.S. bombing had been hitting civilian targets. The text has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam
Project at Texas Tech University, in six parts:
pp. i-iii, 1-31,
pp. 32-64,
pp. 65-98,
pp. 99-131,
pp. 132-165, and
pp. 166-195.
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Bombing as a Policy Tool in Vietnam: Effectiveness.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff study, based on the Pentagon
Papers, October 12, 1972. The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
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Department of Defense Appropriations. Briefings on Bombing
of North Vietnam; Reprogrammings, Department of the Navy.
Hearings before the Subcommittee on DOD Appropriations, House
Appropriations Committee. Pp. 1-61 are testimony of Admiral
Thomas H. Moorer, CJCS, January 9, 18, 1973, on Linebacker II.
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Privileged Resolutions Concerning the Bombing of North
Vietnam.
Hearings of the House Armed Services Committee, February 28, 1973,
with Dennis J. Doolin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs, for Southeast Asia and Pacific
Affairs, to discuss the bombing of December 1972 to
January 1973. 29 pp. The text
has been placed on-line in
the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project at Texas Tech University.
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Nomination of McLucas and Brown. Hearing of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, June 13, 1973. Includes testimony of John L. McLucas, Acting Secretary (nominee for Secretary) of the Air
Force on report falsification of bombing in Indochina. iii + 27 pp.
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Bombing in
Cambodia. Hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, July 16-August 9, 1973. Also includes information on
ground operations in both Cambodia and Laos.
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Statement of Information, Book XI, Bombing of Cambodia. House
Judiciary Committee, 1974. 599 pp. Information collected in connection with hearings to consider whether Richard Nixon should be impeached.
pp. 90-103 give the best and most reliable statistics on the US air war in Indochina
that I have ever seen (figures compiled by USAF Brigadier General Raymond B. Furlong, showing sorties and
tonnages, by month, separately for B-52s and fighter-bombers, for North Vietnam, South Vietnam, northern Laos, southern Laos, and Cambodia).
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Fiscal Year 1974 Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and and Development, Construction Authorization for the Safeguard
System, and Active Duty and Selected Reserve Strengths. Hearings before the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Part 1,
Authorizations,
March 28, 29; April 2, 1973, includes cumulative detailed figures on the use of US air power in Indochina, by months since 1965,
different from and less complete than those published by the House
Judiciary Committee at about the same time (see Statement of
Information above). There are also detailed figures on US casualties.
The committee was somewhat annoyed when it discovered, soon afterward, some
of the ways the figures were incomplete.
Part 6, Tactical Air Power, also includes
interesting information on various aspects of the air war.
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