#Operation Linebacker II

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez "Where Are You Now, My Son?" Where Are You Now, My Son, March 24, 1973.

A collection of tape recordings, spoken word and song recordings of Joan Baez and company's time in Vietnam during the Christmas carpet bombings of December 1972.

[usafphantom2]

Operation Linebacker II (Dec 18 - 29, 1972) by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Dec 1972 - Right front view of a B-52D Stratofortress aircraft from Strategic Air Command taking off from the Andersen AFB, in Guam, for a mission over North Vietnam during Operation LINEBACKER II. Notice, due to the high sensitive strategic missions of the Boeing B-52s, none of them was stationned in Vietnam during the war.

[hezigler]

From CNN: The horror of the Vietnam 'Christmas bombings' 50 years on

The horror of the Vietnam 'Christmas bombings' 50 years on

[casposters]

Title: Operation Linebacker II 1972: The B-52s Are Sent to Hanoi Authors: Marshall L. Michel III & Jim Laurier

[antonjesus]

Operation Linebacker II - The B-52s go to Hanoi, 1972 - Animated

[almackey]

Launch the Intruders by Carol Reardon

Professor Reardon is a military historian, and this book is her sole foray into an area other than Civil War history. This book is the story of US Navy Attack Squadron 75 [VA-75 in Navy parlance], which flew off the carrier USS Saratoga, from September 1972 through Operation Linebacker II in December of that year. It's based on several interviews with surviving members of the squadron and their spouses, letters home, journals and diaries, and official records. Professor Reardon has done an outstanding job with this book. If you are curious about what it's like to be in a flying squadron, this book is what you want. Professor Reardon takes us inside the ready room of the "Sunday Punchers," as VA-75 was known, and into the cockpits of their A-6 Intruder aircraft, a tactical aircraft used for bombing and for defense suppression. She lets us virtually stand next to the pilots and bombardier/navigators [B/Ns] of the squadron and to imagine ourselves sitting next to these men in the cockpits. It's a page-turner and is really an excellent read.

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 12.30 (after 1930)

1935 – The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. 1936 – The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors. 1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. 1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant. 1947 – Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania. 1952 – An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground. 1954 – The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency. 1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension. 1967 – Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near Liepāja International Airport in Liepāja, Latvia, killing 43. 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends. 1987 – Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa. 1993 – Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland. 1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel. 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed. 2000 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. 2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194. 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin. 2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed. 2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths. 2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed. 2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River. 2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan. 2013 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[marcedrickirby]

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[casbooks]

Books of 2023

Book 45 of 2023

Title: A Backseat View from the Phantom Authors: Fleet S. Lentz Tags: A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair II, Air Liaison Officer, B-52 Stratofortress, F-4 Phantom II, F-8 Crusader, FAC, KC-130 Hercules, KHM Angkor Temples, KHM Cambodia, KHM Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975), KHM Pol Pot / Saloth Sar, KHM Tonle Sap (Great Lake), LAO Hmong Meo Tribesmen, LAO Laos, LAO Laotian Civil War (1959-1975), LAO Pathet Lao, LAO Plain of Jars / Plaine des Jarres, LAO Saravane, LAO Tchepone, LAO USAF Steve Canyon Program - Ravens FAC (Laotian Civil War), LAO Vientiane, lineback, MiG-15 Fagot, MiG-17 Fresco, MiG-19 Farmer, MiG-21 Fishbed, PHL Philippines, PHL Poro Point, PHL US USAF Clark Air Force Base, PHL US USN NAS Cubi Point, POW, SA-2 Guideline SAM, SA-7 Strela SAM, SAM, THA Bangkok, THA RTAF Royal Thai Air Force, THA RTAFB Nam Phong Royal Thai Airbase, THA RTAFB Nam Phong Royal Thai Airbase - The Rose Garden, THA RTAFB Udorn Royal Thai Air Base, THA RTNAF U-Tapao Air Field, THA Thailand, THA Udon Thani, THA Udon Thani - Charoen Hotel, THA Udon Thani - Yellow Bird Bar, THA US USA Port Samae San (Vietnam War), THA USMC TF Delta (Vietnam War), US President Richard M. Nixon, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, US USAF JEST Jungle Environment Survival Training, US USAF United States Air Force, US USMC 9th Marines, US USMC 9th Marines - 3/9, US USMC MAG-15, US USMC MALS-41, US USMC MCAS Cherry Point NC, US USMC MCAS El Toro CA, US USMC MCAS El Toro CA - SERE School, US USMC United States Marine Corps, US USMC VFMA-115 Silver Eagles, US USMC VFMA-115 Silver Eagles - Blade, US USMC VMFA-112, US USMC VMFA-115, US USMC VMFA-232 Red Devils, US USMC VMFA-312, US USMC VMFA-533, US USN NAS Dallas TX, US USN NAS Glynco GA, US USN NAS Miramar CA, US USN NAS Miramar CA - Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), US USN NAS Oceana VA, US USN NAS Pensacola FL, US USN United States Navy, US USN VF-96, US USN VFA-192 Golden Dragons, US USN VT-10, VNM 1972 Easter Offensive / Nguyen Hue (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Cam Lo, VNM Camp Carroll (Vietnam War), VNM Da Nang, VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army, VNM DRV NVAF North Vietnamese Air Force, VNM DRV VC Viet Cong, VNM Gia Lam, VNM Hanoi, VNM Hanoi - Ho Lao Prison (Hanoi Hilton) (Vietnam War), VNM Hanoi - Metropole Hotel, VNM Operation Arc Light (1965-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Combat Skyspot (1965-1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Linebacker I (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Linebacker II (1972) (Vietnam War), VNM Operation Sunset (1973) (Vietnam War), VNM Phouc Tuong (Dogpatch), VNM Quang Tri, VNM RVN SVNAF Da Nang Airbase, VNM Vietnam, VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975), WSO/RIO Weapons Systems Officer/Radar Interecept Officer Rating: ★★ (2 Stars) Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Aviation.USMC.Fighters, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Laotian Civil War.Aviation.FAC.Ravens, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Laotian Civil War.Aviation.USMC.Fighters

Description: As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War. Overcoming military regulations, he and his fellow Marines at The Rose Garden (Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong) kept sorely needed supplies moving in while moving combat troops out of Southeast Asia. His personal and accessible memoir describes how pilots and RIOs executed dangerous air-to-ground bombing missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos—quite different from the air-to-air warfare for which they had trained—and kept themselves mission-capable (and human) while surviving harsh circumstances.

Review: This book should actually have been called A Frontseat View of Nam Phong. The amount he wrote on flying and being in the air and in combat is miniscule - barely a footnote - when compared to his detailed rememberances of people, what they did at the bar, what he did as a building inspector on base, and details on scrounging for stuff at Cubi Point and elsewhere. But to really get a feel of what it was like to fly combat in Laos and Cambodia and both South and North Vietnam, you'd better get a different book because this one barely mentions any of that. Definitely a 2 star book simply because of the misleading title and description. If this was supposed to be a book about life at an Air Base, it'd be a 3 at least, but NOPE.

[johnpodlaski]

Linebacker II

Photo: Shrapnel from an SA2 SAM on a B-52 windscreen. My friend, John (JFD3VET) sent me this article and a video of the actual strike. I found it compelling and was especially intrigued when watching the actual “Ballet of B52s” in the attached video. Don’t miss this one. As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 B-52s conducted a mass strike over Hanoi and Haiphong, the largest mission of the…

[newswireml]

The Christmas bombings: A US airman recalls the Vietnam War's Operation Linebacker II, 50 years on#Christmas #bombings #airman #recalls #Vietnam #Wars #Operation #Linebacker #years

CNN  —  It was one of the heaviest bombardments in history. A shock-and-awe campaign of overwhelming air power aimed at bombing into submission a determined opponent that, despite being vastly outgunned, had withstood everything the world’s most formidable war machine could throw at it. Operation Linebacker II saw more than 200 American B-52 bombers fly 730 sorties and drop over 20,000 tons of…

[itwas50yearsagotoday]

Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam

12/25/22:  It was 50 years ago today, December 25th, 1972, the United States military was in the middle of its 12-day aerial bombing campaign of Hanoi and Haiphong called ‘Operation Linebacker II’ or the Christmas Day Bombing... or, in Vietnam, the “12 Days and Nights”.  It was more or less the very last phase of United States direct military involvement in the Vietnamese Civil War, as a little more than one month from this time the Paris Peace Accords would finally be signed.  This bombing has been described as forcing North Vietnam to accept our concessions to end the war... more on the accords in January.  In retrospect, the United States just killed thousands of Vietnamese civilians as kind of a sick exclamation point to this terrible chapter in World history.  It was the largest heavy bomber strikes (from B-52s) launched by the U.S. Air Force since World War II.  All for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linebacker_II

[usafphantom2]

Operation Linebacker II (Dec 18 - 29, 1972) by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: Dec 1972, Andersen AB, Guam - A B-52D Stratofortress aircraft waits beside the runway as a B-52G approaches for landing after completing a bombing mission over North Vietnam during Operation LINEBACKER II. The aircraft are from the Strategic Air Command. US National Archives photo

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

(Top) Telford Taylor, Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, appears at a news conference with, Barry Romo,(left) of “Vietnam Veterans against the war,” Joan Baez, and Rev. Michael Allen of Yale Divinity School.

(Bottom) Joan Baez and the Reverend Michael Allen at a News Conference following their return from Hanoi, January 1, 1973.

☞Footage of these four touring bomb sites following the “Christmas Bombings,” and an interview following their return to the states.

[casposters]

Title: Operation Linebacker II 1972: The B-52s Are Sent to Hanoi Authors: Marshall L. Michel III & Jim Laurier

[vietnamwarera]

From the source: “B-52s prepare to take off from Andersen Air Base, Guam, for missions in Operation Linebacker II in Dec. 1972.”

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