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March 2, 1965 Rolling Thunder Begins
The US launches Rolling Thunder, in which 100 US Air Force planes and60 South Vietnamese planes bomb North Vietnam. These are the first air raidsagainst North Vietnam that are not in direct retaliation for Communist attacks.Rolling Thunder continues on and off from 1965 to 1968. In all, the US flies304,000 fighter bomber sorties and 2,380 B-52 bomber sorties over NorthVietnam, loses 922 aircraft and drops 634,000 tons of bombs.
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