ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- The annual ... Operation Linebacker II. Operation Linebacker II, also referred to as the "11-Day War," was conducted from Dec. 18, 1972 to Dec. 29, 1972.

Operation Linebacker II saw more than 200 American B-52 bombers fly 730 sorties and drop over 20,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam over a period of 12 days in December 1972, in a brutal assault ...

As I’ve argued passionately in multiple articles, Operation Linebacker II, the so-called “Christmas bombing” of Hanoi and ...

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam — A ceremony commemorating ... where waves of B-52s were launched 33 years ago in Operation Linebacker II. More than 150 of the huge bombers flew almost 730 ...

Operation Linebacker II ran from Dec. 18-29, 1972, and marked the first time the ... McCarthy then moved on to Guam as vice commander and later commander of the 43rd Strategic Wing at Andersen ...

SAC called the operation “Linebacker II ... II raids on the afternoon of Dec. 18, 1972. Eighty-seven B-52s roared off the runways in Guam. Forty-two departed U Tapao in Thailand.

A South Dakota Vietnam Vet was part of a two-week strategic bombing campaign back in 1972 called Operation Linebacker II. Most historians will tell you, it was the beginning of the end.

(U.S. Air Force photo) President Richard Nixon ordered Operation Linebacker II in December 1972 to pressure North Vietnam into signing a peace agreement — and to assure South Vietnam that it ...

Airmen who took part in Operation Linebacker II met on Saturday ... "We had aircraft coming from Guam, we had aircraft coming from Utapau and Thailand all meeting together and flying into the target," ...