The Secret US Bombing of Cambodia

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Wednesday 08 May 2013

 

In May 1969 the New York Times revealed that US war planes were secretly bombing Cambodia. It was a major escalation of America's war against the communist Viet Cong. Neither the US Congress nor the American public had been told. William Beecher was the reporter who broke the story.

Photo: An American B52 bomber in flight during the Viet Nam war.