- Tuyet Thu Francois Buis, chú không tìm được lời nhận xét của General four-star Creighton Abrams về sự fire support của US Air Support trong cuộc chiến VN nếu không có quân bộ chiến của ll SV Armed Forces thì sẽ không thể nào chiếm lại được QT. Chú cảm ơn con.
- Francois Buis ...Later critics said that South Vietnam had thrown back the invaders only because of American air support. Abrams responded vigorously to that. "I doubt the fabric of this thing could have been held together without U.S. air," he told his commanders, "but the thing that had to happen before that is the Vietnamese, some numbers of them, had to stand and fight. If they didn't do that, ten times the air we've got wouldn't have stopped them."
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Americans know very little about the Vietnam War,...freerepublic.com - Francois Buis While there is no doubt that U.S. airpower and the American advisors played critical roles in the defense of An Loc, it must be acknowledged that none of that would have mattered if the South Vietnamese soldiers had not held their ground. Perhaps General Creighton Abrams, MACV commander, said it best when he observed, “...I doubt that the fabric of this thing [the ARVN defense] could have held together without U.S. air. But the thing that had to happen before that is the Vietnamese, some numbers of them, had to stand and fight. If they didn’t do that, ten times the air we’ve got wouldn’t have stopped them...We would we were we are this morning if some numbers of the Vietnamese hadn’t decided to stand and fight.”
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Quoted in Sorley (book), Vietnam Chronicles, p.826. 
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Creighton
Williams Abrams, Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a
United States Army general who commanded military operations in the
Vietnam War from 1968–72 (which saw U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam
fall from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000). He served as Chief of Staff of
the United…
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