Early in the war under operation "Rolling Thunder" troop concentrations, conventional AAA batteries, bridges, and roads were the primary targets. As the war progressed, and operations such as "Linebacker" and "Linebacker II" were launched, oil storage facilities, MIG-17, MIG-19, and MIG-21 air bases, and missile sites were targeted. As well as the capital itself, Hanoi.
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
The US wanted N. Vietnam to stop fighting in S. Vietnam.
Even though Vietnam is a communist country, the US does business with Vietnam. The US promotes good business. Friends? Sure, why not.
The US tested napalm, bombs and chemical weapons on the Vietnam civilians.
None. The US is not at war with Iraq. In Vietnam, the US was at war with North Vietnam.
Strategic bombing was conducted over North Vietnam; tactical bombing was conducted in South Vietnam; Secret bombings were conducted in Laos and Cambodia.
The North returned to the negotiation table.
This was an air campaign conducted by the US Air Force & US Naval Airmen. Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name given to us bombings of strategic targets in North Vietnam is 1965. It was used by the US, under president Johnson. This method was used in order to put pressure on the south, in order to make them stop supplying the vietcong, end the war and start negotiations. However, it brought no end to the conflict and failed to have any impact on the war.
US airmen flew through the most heavily defended targets in aviation history over North Vietnam during the war.
Operations Rolling Thunder, Linebacker, and Linebacker II (also known as the Christmas Bombings) were some of the most intense battles fought by US Airmen during the war.
The B-52 was America's "Parthian Shot", when we departed Vietnam. Nixon deployed Operations Linebacker and Linebacker II (the Christmas Bombings); then we commenced to depart.
It was The Vietnam War which sparked mass antiwar demonstrations in 1970.
The US and the crew of USAF.
US Air Forces (to include naval & marine air units) engaged North Vietnamese Air Force units; and bombed targets in North Vietnam. US Navy Riverine Forces patrolled the countless rivers of South Vietnam, and interdicted enemy units moving about the waterways. US Army/Marine Ground units "Searched" for the enemy, and "Destroyed" him where ever he was found.
The US never invaded Vietnam.
The "Hanoi Hilton" was not a hotel. It was a "nick-name" for a (concrete building) prison in Hanoi (the capital of N. Vietnam), were US POW's were kept. Nearly all of whom were airmen who had been shot down while bombing or strafing targets in North Vietnam. Very few US POW's were transported from the South to the North.
South Vietnam was considered an ally of the US.