December 1972, after nearly a decade of being in Vietnam, American forces decided to take a final push for victory. For 11 days and nights US Navy and Air Force bombers, led by the vulnerable B-52 flew around the clock missions, deploying over 15 thousand tons of bombs onto North Vietnam. The operation known as Linebacker II brought the communist war machine to its knees. The men and machines of Linebacker II didn’t just fly bombing missions, they ultimately flew America out of the Vietnam war. Many historians place the outcome of the Vietnam War and Linebacker II in the hands of the pilots, crews and the bombers that they flew.
American bombers used in the Vietnam war For four years, the US Air Force and Navy hold and pummel the North Vietnamese