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Photo of Operation Linebacker was the title of a U. S. Seventh Air Force and U. S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive), an invasion of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), that had been launched on 30 March. Linebacker was the first continuous bombing effort conducted against North Vietnam since the bombing halt instituted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1968.

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Army and Navy Pilots Joined Together in a Day of Duels Over Vietnam

by Jon Guttman3/15/20234/14/2023

U.S. and North Vietnamese aces clashed on May 10, 1972

Illustration of Viet Cong tunnel network in Vietnam.

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How “Tunnel Rats” Fought the Viet Cong in Underground Tunnels in Vietnam

by William P. Head3/6/20233/7/2023

American and Australian “tunnel rats” were tasked with the gruesome mission of destroying the enemy underground.

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

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A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20236/28/2023

The Vietnam War left a lasting impact on local communities, which can be seen in how civilians have recycled and repurposed war material.

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They Had to Bomb North Vietnam — Around The Dotted Lines

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/14/20232/14/2023

During Operation Rolling Thunder, Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House placed handicaps on U.S. bombers on missions over North Vietnam. Seeing is believing.

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War is Hell…on the Environment

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher2/14/20232/14/2023

Landmines, heavy metal toxins, and unexploded ordnance continue to poison the earth and wildlife.

Photo of North Vietnamese troops during an assault on a South Vietnamese paratroop base at Laos during the Vietnam War.

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How Did Vietnamese Forces Block U.S. Firepower? With a Hug

by Warren Wilkins2/14/20234/26/2024

Both the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong sought to get very close to Americans to engage them in combat.

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The Day Miss America Almost Got Shot Down Over Vietnam

by Laurel Schaefer-Bozoukoff2/6/20232/7/2023

Laurel Schaefer-Bozoukoff faced both controversy and mortal danger as she showed support for the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Schaefer-Bozoukoff remembers her life-changing war journey.

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He Was 19 When He Crashed Over Vietnam. Now He’s Coming Home.

by Larry Porges2/2/20232/2/2023

Door gunner Thomas F. Green, who vanished over the skies of Vietnam in 1971, has been found and will return to his hometown in 2023.

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Umbrella Guns and Fake Poop? Cold War Spies Thought of Everything.

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/19/20231/19/2023

Spies in the Cold War fought in a clandestine conflict with the aid of gear primed for stealth and trickery.

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The Flight of the Refugees: How War Impacts Civilians

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher1/11/20231/11/2023

Civilians are often passed over in war films — depicted running away in the background, nameless, rootless, ephemeral. Photographs like this remind us that no matter what war, nation or century they might come from, no matter in what image they might appear, they are just like us.