Christmas Bombings

London, Tokyo and Hanoi did not surrender under air assaults and neither will Ukraine

ON THE NIGHT of December 18, 1972, President Richard Nixon sent 129 B-52 bombers roaring over North Vietnam.  The idea was to break Hanoi’s will and force it to sign a peace treaty that would return our POWs and allow the U.S. to get out of the war.

Defense Dept (public domain)  

By the time “the Christmas bombing” of Hanoi and Haiphong ended 50 years ago…