Cartoons from GI Papers published in April - Vietnam (ii) - the air war

I am reproducing these cartoons, which were in the GI Press during the month of April, from 1968 thru 1975, so the readers can get a fuller idea of the concerns and interests of the GI movement. If you own the copyright on any of these and want them removed, contact me at james_lewes@yahoo.com. If the content of the cartoons offends you, I apologize, but as Robert Crumb once wryly observed they are only lines on paper.


This group of cartoons deal with the American side of Nixon's Vietnamization of the war, when in response to increasing opposition to the war, Nixon began to shift the onus of ground operations from US to Vietnamese troops, at the same time he massively increased the dependence on air power as a way to defeat the National Liberation Front and the North Vietnamese Army. This shift, from a dependence on ground forces to the use of saturation bombing, was also reflected in the GI press as more and more airmen began to oppose the war.