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Bombing of North Vietnam continues - Jul 01, 1966 - HISTORY.com
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U.S. Air Force and Navy jets carry out a series of raids on fuel installations in the Hanoi-Haiphong area. The Dong Nam fuel dump, 15 miles northeast of Hanoi, with 9 percent of North Vietnam’s storage capacity, was struck on this day. The Do Son petroleum installation, 12 miles southeast of Haiphong, would be attacked on July 3. The raids continued for two more days, as petroleum facilities near Haiphong, Thanh Hoa, and Vinh were bombed, and fuel tanks in the Hanoi area were hit. These raids were part of Operation Rolling Thunder, which had begun in March 1965. The attacks on the North Vietnamese fuel facilities represented a new level of bombing, since these sites had been previously off limits. However, the raids did not have a lasting impact because China and the Soviet Union replaced the destroyed petroleum assets fairly quickly.
China reacted to these events by calling the bombings “barbarous and wanton acts that have further freed us from any bounds of restrictions in helping North Vietnam.” The World Council of Churches in Geneva sent a cable to President Lyndon B. Johnson saying that the latest bombing of North Vietnam was causing a “widespread reaction” of “resentment and alarm” among many Christians. Indian mobs protested the air raids on the Hanoi-Haiphong area with violent anti-American demonstrations in Delhi and several other cities.
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China reacted to these events by calling the bombings “barbarous and wanton acts that have further freed us from any bounds of restrictions in helping North Vietnam.” The World Council of Churches in Geneva sent a cable to President Lyndon B. Johnson saying that the latest bombing of North Vietnam was causing a “widespread reaction” of “resentment and alarm” among many Christians. Indian mobs protested the air raids on the Hanoi-Haiphong area with violent anti-American demonstrations in Delhi and several other cities.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was hamstrung at times because it became effective SP5 Mark Kuzinski. The administration was concerned about bringing China and the USSR into the war on North Vietnam's side so it limited what Rolling Thunder could target and how much.
Our targeting was not nearly as accurate as it is today but that operation could have damaged so much more of North Vietnam's capability to wage war than it did. This amounted to total war in the south and the North's distribution, port and storage facilities should have been destroyed to the greatest extent possible.
Our targeting was not nearly as accurate as it is today but that operation could have damaged so much more of North Vietnam's capability to wage war than it did. This amounted to total war in the south and the North's distribution, port and storage facilities should have been destroyed to the greatest extent possible.
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Rolling Thunder forces had been impeded further in the successful prosecution of campaign objectives by NCA-imposed geographic restrictions that severely curtailed air strikes in areas north of 20° N, providing North Vietnam with a sanctuary for its greatest military-industrial area for much of that campaign. They were impeded further by denial of authorization to attack legitimate targets because of a fear by the NCA of unacceptable losses by U.S. forces and of targets in heavily populated areas because of a paranoiac fixation with regard to any incidental civilian casualties (based in part on apparent ignorance of belligerent rights under the law of war). Rolling Thunder also suffered from stringent strike restrictions that placed U.S. forces at undue risk and from frequent bombing halts which President Johnson subsequently acknowledged had a net result of "zero . . . indeed . . . less than zero."6
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