Call of Duty: Black Ops (Vietnam Campaign) vs Real Life History

Kabutoes
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Published 2023-01-17
I saw some videos on this and felt like they haven't extensively covered some thing so obvious.

Topics:
Black Ops 1: Russians in Laos
Black Ops Cold War: The CIA race to evacuate nuclear reactor in Da Lat before North Vietnam's Army reaches it first

Russia has uncovertly supplied air drops and air lifts to North Vietnam, Pathet Lao, and Neutralist Lao in their fight against the US-backed Royal Lao Army.

There were hardly Soviet combat troops in South Vietnam (or North Vietnam), but the idea that they were in Laos like in the Black Ops 1 campaign sounded ridiculous, but this real world parallel just made me think about it for a second.

Also Fractured Jaw plan wasn't that interesting, it was just Westmoreland spitballing a MacArthur type plan and had people in Congress think that's the dumbest thing in existence.

ON THE OTHER HAND, the race to evacuate Southeast Asia's first nuclear power plant's vital assets WHILE EVACUATING VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS before the NVA reach it first on March 30, 1975 with Kissinger's acknowledgment, is insanely more interesting.

It's not a nuclear bomb, but it's close haha, not sure if Treyarch got the idea from it but it's a very interesting parallel, I didn't even know South Vietnam had a nuclear powerplant.

Sources:
jfkjmn.com/new-page-80/
pacificairlifter.com/years-gone-by/the-race-to-rem…
At War in the Shadow of Vietnam by Castle, Timothy
CIA War in Laos 1955-1975 (CIA document)

Taiwan in the Vietnam War:
   • Taiwan in the Vietnam War (FULL VERSION)  

Mil Mi 4 Hound in Vietnam War:
   • Mil Mi 4 Hounds in the Vietnam War (1...  

Pathet Lao Propaganda on Lam Son 719
   • Pathet Lao Propaganda on Operation La...  
All Comments (6)
  • @bearboy9833
    That’s why my grandpa and his friend who were Hmong soldiers back then were talking about seeing a Soviet helicopter in a aftermath of fighting the North Vietnamese and vc. They thought it was an American helicopter but turns out to be Soviet. I remember him talking about how a crazy Thai soldier that he trained went out in the open fields and fired an ak 47 at the helicopter and the helicopter just went down hitting the trees and branches and crashed next to a river in the middle of the jungle. Which I don’t know if it’s possible to take down a helicopter with an full auto ak.
  • @Kabutoes
    The log book entry reads: “On March 30, 10:45am, after landing, the co-pilot refused to enter the taxiing runway, where many refugees were waiting.” Refugees flooded the airport. They were fleeing the approaching North Vietnamese, and looking for help from the US. The scientists wanted to help. But they were overruled. Another entry reads: “The Pentagon would not authorize carrying refugees on the return flight to Saigon after our equipment was unloaded.” And in following entries: “Ambassador Graham Martin said: no refugees out — no mission.” “Blow up the reactor.” Ambassador Martin insisted on transporting the refugees, and urged Pentagon officials to allow it. The log said: “Flash message sent to Pentagon. In 90 minutes, approval was received.” Miller says defense officials then decided against dynamiting the reactor. “We recommended against it because the spread of radioactivity wouldn’t have been a good idea,” he says. “I thought it would be a big propaganda tool for communists. So that idea, as far as I knew, was dropped as not being reasonable.”
  • @kimama2417
    My grandfather removed the core from Dalat.