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When the last raid by B-52s over Cambodia on August 15, 1973, culminated American bombing in Southeast Asia, the United States had dropped more than 8 million tons of bombs in 9 years. Four million tons fell on South Vietnam-America’s ally in the war against communist aggression. Three million more tons fell on Laos and Cambodia-supposedly “neutral” countries in the conflict. That effort, and the Linebacker campaigns that followed, dropped a million tons of bombs on North Vietnam. Seven months later, America began its longest sustained “strategic bombing” campaign, Operation Rolling Thunder, against the North. bombing raids against North Vietnam, conducted in response to attacks by North Vietnamese patrol boats on the destroyer USS Maddox in the Tonkin Gulf, occurred a half-century ago this August. For most of the world’s population, America’s air wars in Vietnam are now ancient history.
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