Defense Department figures put the number of combat missions flown over North Vietnam since February 1965 to 117,000, dropping over 2.5 million tons of bombs and rockets.
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Aug 17, 1968:
117,000 combat missions flown over North Vietnam in three years
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This Week in History, Aug 17 - Aug 23
- Aug 17, 1968
- 117,000 combat missions flown over North Vietnam in three years
- Aug 17, 1973
- U.S. troops to withdraw from Thailand
- Aug 18, 1965
- Marines launch Operation Starlite
- Aug 18, 1966
- Australians defeat VC at Long Tan
- Aug 18, 1968
- Communists launch new offensive
- Aug 18, 1971
- Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw troops from Vietnam
- Aug 19, 1968
- Many Americans against a bombing halt
- Aug 19, 1970
- Cambodia and U.S. sign military aid pact
- Aug 19, 1972
- Democratic candidate McGovern attacks Nixon policy in Vietnam
- Aug 20, 1954
- United States decides to support Diem
- Aug 20, 1971
- Minh and Ky withdraw from presidential race
- Aug 20, 1974
- Military aid to Saigon slashed
- Aug 21, 1963
- Nhu's Special Forces attack the Buddhists
- Aug 21, 1965
- U.S. pilots given green light to go after anti-aircraft missiles in the North
- Aug 21, 1969
- Nixon meets with South Korean President
- Aug 21, 1971
- Antiwar protestors raid draft offices
- Aug 22, 1962
- Kennedy reports stalemate in Vietnam
- Aug 22, 1967
- Graduated bombing policy condemned
- Aug 22, 1968
- VC repudiates Johnson's peace overture
- Aug 22, 1972
- Demonstrators disrupt Republican National Convention in Miami Beach
- Aug 23, 1966
- U.S. cargo ship strikes a mine near Saigon
- Aug 23, 1968
- Communist forces renew offensive
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