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That's quite surprising. Where are the numbers that support this? You could ask your friendly local AI “how much ordinance was dropped during World War II?” And you would be told:
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped approximately 7.5 to 7.7 million tons of bombs and other ordnance on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This makes it the heaviest aerial bombardment in history.
For perspective, this tonnage was:
More than three times the total U.S. bombing tonnage used during all of World War II. Or if you asked another way:
Yes, the United States dropped significantly more bombs by weight on Vietnam (and the greater Indochina region) than were used in the entirety of World War II. Estimates indicate that the total tonnage of ordnance dropped in Indochina was roughly 7.6 million tons, compared to approximately 2.1 million tons during World War II. Or this:
American aircraft dropped over 5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam– the largest bombardment of any country in history– and more than twice as much tonnage as the U.S. Air Force dropped in all of World War II. Over 4 million tons fell on the mostly rural areas of the former South Vietnam, plus 400,000 tons of napalm and 19 million gallons of herbicides. This compares with approximately 2 million tons on Laos and half a million tons on Cambodia. https://renewvn.org/the-most-bombed-place-on-earth...And added:
As one academic study put it, “Quang Tri province was basically bombed flat during the war, with most of its capital and infrastructure destroyed: only 11 of 3,500 Quang Tri villages were left unbombed by the end of the war.” Note: the claim that we dropped more tonnage than
everyone is easily supported, since the Allies used much more overall, especially in the gigantic raids over cities like Dresden and Tokyo than the Axis did, which relied more on ooh-scary Messerschmidt dive bombing as they invaded, or even in the Blitz over England.
We dropped more tonnage on Vietnam THAN ALL THE TONNAGE used in World War II by everyone, including the atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I wouldn’t expect Colonel Bone Spurs to know that, however, or care if he did.
