Richard Milhous Nixon8 May 1972
1st day of Operation Linebacker I, bombing north Vietnam
United States · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
1st day of Operation Linebacker I, bombing north Vietnam
Nixon orders bombing to be halted north of 20 degrees latitude
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