[news] Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Christmas Bombing of Vietnam

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>From Dec. 18 until Dec. 30 in 1972, the United States conducted a campaign of intensive aerial bombing...over North Vietnam. In the approximately 4,000 sorties flown...American pilots concentrated on the major cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. The missions executed so-called area bombing, never precise or pinpoint. Their goal: To kill as many civilians as possible.

  


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