Nation-Building Narratives in Viet Nam: A Memoir on B-52s and Their Aftermath |
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Authors: | John Kremers Whitmore |
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Institution: | (1) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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Abstract: | In late 1972 (December 18-30), the Christmas Bombing of Hanoi in the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by the U.S. Air Force
took place. Three weeks later, the American author arrived and witnessed the destruction and how the Vietnamese had already
fitted this 'Battle of the B-52s' into their centuries old narrative of resistance to foreign invasion. This article recounts
the people and situations that he met on this visit and the ways Vietnamese of all kinds viewed the battle as a great victory
for their land, one reinforcing their sense of past, present, and future. |
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