[secretagent]

(1)I thought that ARVN suffered enormous casualties, and that the NVA targeted them over the U.S. forces.

(2) I've heard that the South would have held even after the U.S. left, if Congress had just supplied them with arms to match the Soviet Union's aid to the North.

[PJ-Comix]

I've heard that the South would have held even after the U.S. left, if Congress had just supplied them with arms to match the Soviet Union's aid to the North.

They were supplied but how many of those supplies were sold off for cash? Bottom line, we had a terrible ally. Corrupt and not really willing to make battlefield sacrifices.

[RLK]

(1)I thought that ARVN suffered enormous casualties, and that the NVA targeted them over the U.S. forces. (2) I've heard that the South would have held even after the U.S. left, if Congress had just supplied them with arms to match the Soviet Union's aid to the North.

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You are correct. In the final push from the North the North vietnamese invaded with massive Soviet made tank units, in massed formation. The South had no armamnt manufacturing capability. They were denied supplies by the ascendency of the radical political left in this country. Consequently, they had no defenses.

The North had such confidence in the lack of support of the south that they had massed their troup and armor units. It was a military gift. At that point, a one day support attack by American air power would have wiped out all Norther armor and the majority of the Northern army. The war would have ended. Instead, we betrayed the south the same as we betrayed the Cubans at the Bay of Pigs.