Americans try to stop this by bombing the trail, strategic B-52 bombers doing most of the heavy lifting. Feeling pressure, North Vietnam deploys some of their MiG-21 interceptors to air bases near ...

“But after the first night, we knew the B-52 could be destroyed just like any other aircraft. The U.S. said they wanted to bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age. This was a mistake. You cannot use ...

The first B-52 Arc Light raid took place on June 18, 1965, on a suspected Vietcong base north of Saigon. In November 1965, B-52s directly supported American ground forces for the first time ...