List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War

The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives. By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.

List of bombing campaigns

Farm Gate: 13 January 1962January 1965[1][2]

Operation Pierce Arrow: 5 August 1964[3]

Operation Barrel Roll: 14 December 196429 March 1973[4]

Operation Flaming Dart: 7 February 196524 February 1965[5]

Operation Rolling Thunder: 2 March 19652 November 1968[6]

Operation Steel Tiger: 3 April 196511 November 1968[7]

Operation Arc Light: 18 June 196515 August 1973[8]

Operation Tiger Hound: 5 December 196511 November 1968 [9]

Operation Commando Hunt: 11 November 196829 March 1972[10]

Operation Niagara: January 1968March 1968[11]

Operation Menu (consisting of Operations Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner, Dessert, and Supper): 18 March 196926 May 1970[12]

Operation Patio: 24 April 197029 April 1970.

Operation Freedom Deal: 19 May 197015 August 1973

Operation Linebacker I: 9 May 197223 October 1972[13]

Operation Linebacker II: 18 December 197229 December 1972[14]

Notes

  1. Clodfelter, pp. 43-44, 59.
  2. Churchill, p. 12.
  3. Clodfelter, pp. 56-57.
  4. Clodfelter, pp. 57, 221-222, 266.
  5. Clodfelter, pp. 58-59.
  6. Clodfelter, pp. 59, 218-222, 229.
  7. Clodfelter, pp. 221-222, 266.
  8. Clodfelter, pp. 63, 123.
  9. Clodfelter, p. 266.
  10. Clodfelter, p. 223.
  11. Clodfelter, p. 123.
  12. Clodfelter, pp. 176, 223, 272.
  13. Clodfelter, pp. 223-224.
  14. Clodfelter, pp. 224-225.

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