In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, US forces obliterated the south Vietnamese town of Ben Tre.
The brutal and bizarre bombardment made national news headlines because, up until that point, the Americans had been attempting to defend the area.
When asked the reason why, the local commander replied he believed it had been occupied by thousands of Viet-Cong infiltrators. ‘So we had to destroy the town to save the town,’ he infamously explained.
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