Operation Linebacker
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Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietna
A 388th TFW SAM hunter-killer team refueling on its way to North Vietnam, October 1972
North Vietnamese anti-aircraft defense weapons
VA-195 A-7E bombing the Hải Dương bridge, 10 May 1972
Operation Linebacker II
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Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, the Twelve days and nights, or Điện Biên Phủ of the Sky, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the Uni
Operation Linebacker
…announced that peace was at hand, it was not going to come easily. American bombers would once again return to the skies of North Vietnam in 1972 during Operation Linebacker II before the American commitment to the Vietnam War came to an end. (Air-to-air losses only, claimed by the U.S…
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress on bomb run
B-52 bombing crews at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam being briefed on the operation.
A B-52G lands at Andersen AFB after a mission on 15 December 1972.