Westmorland’s Targets
Just before the beginning of the hearings on the war began, the president decided to resume the bombing of the targets in North Vietnam.
Source: exploreindochina.com (Left) A Phantom F4 in action. Notice the wing tips which are at a different angle to the main wings. (Right) A wing tip from a downed Phantom F4 jet in the Mu Gia pass areas, one of the 40-odd planes shot down in this region.
Thus, ending a 36-day ceasefire between the North and the south. Despite North Vietnamese Gorillas controlling one-third of the land in the south, Westmorland set his sights on targeting the Vietcong assets in the North.