I remember the daily body count reports on the nightly news telling us how many NVA soldiers our army had killed.
Thinking of it now, it is hard to guess, was that pro or anti-war propaganda?
>>was that pro or anti-war propaganda?
I believe that General William Westmoreland and Secretary McNamara believed it was information that would demonstrate progress. Whether it the public took it that way or whether it increased support for the war is debatable.
I don’t remember enemy body counts anything like “daily”.
I do remember Friday night at 7 all 3 networks presented the US KIA number for the week. It was very important to LBJ and McNamara to show Ho Chi Minh that we were “serious”, that we could “pay the price” and not “cut and run”.
Of course, it was all a fraud.
I asked a combat veteran of the Vietnam war and he told me they had real no idea of how many of “ charlie “ they killed because they took their dead with them