Hanoi no longer demanded that South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van
Infuriated, President Nixon ordered plans drawn up for retaliatory bombings of North Vietnam. Linebacker II was the result. Beginning on December 18, ...
In response, President Johnson ordered retaliatory strikes against North Vietnam and ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded American air operations in August
... ordering unauthorized bombing of mil targets in N Vietnam; Cong
President · In his first months in office, Nixon directed the U.S. military to increase its pressure on the battlefield, while ordering the secret B–52 bombings of North ...
It marks America's first combat missions against the Vietcong.
50 years ago: WASHINGTON - President Nixon personally ordered a 36-hour halt in B52 bombing missions over South Vietnam but has not ...
US President Barack Obama holds a prosthetic limb as he tours the Cooperative Orthotic and Prothetic
The relentless bombing missions took a terrible toll on both co.