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Bombing of Dong Hoi

United States · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1965Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1965

Lyndon Baines Johnson7 February 1965

Dong Hoi · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Johnson approves Operation Flaming Dart, the bombing of a North Vietnamese army camp near Dong Hoi

Lyndon Baines Johnson8 February 1965

Dong Hoi · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

U.S. air attacks take place on bases at Dong Hoi in retaliation for Pleiku. The beginning of limited offensive attacks on military targets in North Vietnam

Names involved

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Provenance

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