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U.S. Navy LTV A-7E Corsair II off the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63)
10 May 1972: At the outset of Operation Linebacker, a U.S. Navy LTV A-7E Corsair II off the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) bombs the Hai Duong railway and highway bridge in North Vietnam.
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By Eric Mills
August 2022
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Fifty years ago this summer, a large-scale deployment of U.S. Navy and Air Force assets took the fight to North Vietnam. Operation Linebacker punched north of the 20th parallel, and when it did so, it went loaded for bear. By the end of 1972, North Vietnam was ready to talk peace. The U.S. Seventh Fleet was key to this outcome, one that the world at large was desirous of seeing in those tempestuous times, and here we are honored to give the sailors of ’72 their semicentennial due. Acclaimed historian of the period Edward J. Marolda returns to our pages to illustrate in detail the crucial role of sea power in bringing about the end of the Vietnamese conflict.

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Eric Mills

Eric Mills is the author of Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War and Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. His articles have appeared in Naval History, Proceedings, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, and other publications. He lives near Easton, MD.

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