Infuriated, President Nixon ordered plans drawn up for retaliatory bombings of North Vietnam.
The bombing campaign, dubbed Linebacker II, continued until Dec.
President Lyndon B. Johnson expanded American air operations in August
Which president ordered a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam and sent the first combat troops to South Vietnam?
However, South Vietnam continued to experience political instability and military losses to North Vietnam.
On 4 April, Nixon authorized the bombing of North Vietnam (which had been limited to reprisal raids just above the DMZ) up to the 18th parallel. In order to prevent ...
We have been engaged in discussions with the North Vietnamese in Paris since last May.
rebuffed, the President ordered the resumption of the bombing raids effective May 18.
while ordering the secret B–52 bombings of North Vietnamese base camps in
3,500 troops, went ashore near Da Nang to protect the airfields, with orders to