Jan 31, 2019 · An 1968 investigative report obtained by The Times offers new details into one of the Vietnam War’s worst friendly-fire incidents.

During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory of Guam to provide battlefield air interdiction during the Vietnam War.

Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) against North Vietnam, China and North Korea from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War.. The four objectives of the operation (which evolved over time) were ...

Feb 1, 2019 · In the desperate fight for Hill 875 in South Vietnam’s Central Highlands, at least 20 soldiers from the United States Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade were killed in one of the deadliest...

Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later ...

To persuade the North Vietnamese to negotiate, President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Vietnam to the southern part of the country on 31 March 1968, in effect, bringing Operation Rolling Thunder to an end. Preliminary discussions began in Paris in …

Jul 6, 2022 · Phan Thi Kim Phuc, or "Napalm Girl," shocked the world as she ran from a Vietnam War airstrike. But there's a lot more to her story. What we've all been getting wrong about this haunting Vietnam War photo.

In April 1965, Rolling Thunder officially commenced with attacks on targets in southern North Vietnam by Air Force planes flying from their shore bases and by Navy aircraft flying from Task Force 77 carriers operating in the Gulf of Tonkin—“Yankee Station.”

Feb 24, 2010 · Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from …

In a break in the bad weather characteristic of North Vietnam, an A-4 Skyhawk, operating off the USS Oriskany in October 1967, drops 500-pound bombs during an air strike against the Kien An airfield near Haiphong.