Operation Wrath of God
The Vietnam War was a conflict involving the United States, between communist North Vietnam and the US-allied South Vietnam.
History[]
Operation Wrath of God[]
During the Vietnam War, U.S. President Richard Nixon dispatched Doctor Manhattan to Vietnam to ensure a U.S. victory by 1971.
A U.S. military unit ends up missing in action while trying to locate an enemy landing area. The Comedian was assigned to find the unit, confirm intelligence of a helicopter gunship ferrying reinforcements for the Đặc Công (Vietnamese Special Forces), and dispose of all hostiles within the vicinity. Blake carried out his mission, killing many enemy soldiers (and noncombatants) in the process. After rescuing the U.S. troops, he scorched an entire village to punish them for covering for the Viet Cong.
A French photojournalist named Alain Guillon captured images of Doctor Manhattan grown to enormous size and decimating Việt Cộng forces. Guillon was awed by the superhuman's power, yet terrified by his lack of emotional reaction to the mass destruction that he was causing. Guillon also photographed the Comedian, whom he considered a monster. Guillon's photos are widely deemed among the defining images of the Vietnam War.
Victory in Vietnam[]
The Vietnam War was won by the United States, largely due to the deployment of Operation Wrath of God. The Comedian has been in Vietnam for an undetermined amount of time working for the government and Doctor Manhattan was used as a weapon under the orders of Richard Nixon; the conflict was ended in only a few months. Many of the communist forces express their desire to surrender to Manhattan personally, seeing him as some sort of deity.
June 29, 1971, Tôn Đức Thắng, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, signed an Act of Military Surrender in the presence of Creighton Williams Abrams, head of the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam. The surrender is unconditional, with Vietnam agreeing to cease all hostilities, liberate all prisoners of war and civilian internees, and hand over all control and authority to President Nixon.
It is in Vietnam's capital city, Saigon, in the closing days of the war, that the Comedian kills a young Vietnamese woman whom he had impregnated during a physical relationship. The woman is hurt and offended by Blake's desire to leave the country and her behind with no father for their child. She breaks a bottle and slashes his face; in his extreme anger, Blake shoots her while Manhattan, a witness, does nothing to prevent him.
By 1985, Vietnam became the 51st state of the United States.
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