mar 2, 1965 - Operation Rolling Thunder March 2, 1965 - November 1, 1968

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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 March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s communist leaders and to reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. The bombing occurred partly in response to a Viet Cong attack on a U.S. air base at Pleiku. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

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