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On 30 March North Vietnam launched the Nguyễn Huệ or Easter Offensive, a massive conventional invasion of South Vietnam. This led to a large increase in U.S. airpower and airstrikes to defend South Vietnam and a resumption of bombing of North Vietnam.
The Easter Offensive, also known as the 1972 spring–summer offensive (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972) by North Vietnam, or the Red Fiery Summer (Mùa hè đỏ lửa) as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) against ...
North Vietnamese 130mm field guns pound ARVN positions during the Easter offensive. By the spring of 1972, Vietnamization, a process by which all American troops would be withdrawn from Southeast Asia while the ARVN was left to fight the war on its own, was almost complete.
Mar 31, 2022 · How the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Tested Nixon’s War Strategy. A look back on 50th anniversary of the Easter Offensive at how South Vietnamese victory against communist forces became a rationale for complete U.S. withdrawal and Nixon’s “peace with honor.” by James H. Willbanks 3/31/2022.
Sep 13, 2017 · • December 1972: President Nixon orders the launch of the most intense air offense of the war in Operation Linebacker. The attacks, concentrated between Hanoi and Haiphong, drop roughly 20,000...
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Sep 1, 2006 · In February 1972, the NVA in the DMZ fired more than 50 Soviet-made SA-2 SAM missiles, shooting down three U.S. F-4s. On March 30, 1972, the three NVA divisions crossed the DMZ into the northern part of South Vietnam, to be joined, by the end of April, by an additional three divisions.
On 30 March 1972—three days before Easter—the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) committed fourteen divisions backed by several hundred tanks and heavy artillery to a three‐pronged assault to gain territory and possibly win the war outright.
