As a result, they dropped thousands of bombs on towns and villages, with the purpose of making the North Vietnamese give up the war and stopping the flow of equipment down the Ho Chi Minh trail, by attacking the North Vietnamese industrial and transportation system (Herring, 1987). Based on estimation, more bombs were dropped in this time than were dropped in all World War II (Grantham, 1998). Furthermore the bombing campaign killed indiscriminately. It was later found that 80% of all casualties were civilians. Despite killing over 1000 civilians per week, morale remained high (Herring, 1987). The people volunteered to repair the damage showing they would not give up. The North overcame the heavy bombing. They organized 90,000 civilians and dug 30,000 miles of tunnels to keep transportation flowing, additionally the predominantly agricultural economy was resistant to bombing (Herring, 1987). Operation Rolling Thunder was a costly operation. It cost the USA vast sums of money and had little impact on both the economy of North Vietnam and the morale of the
As a result, they dropped thousands of bombs on towns and villages, with the purpose of making the North Vietnamese give up the war and stopping the flow of equipment down the Ho Chi Minh trail, by attacking the North Vietnamese industrial and transportation system (Herring, 1987). Based on estimation, more bombs were dropped in this time than were dropped in all World War II (Grantham, 1998). Furthermore the bombing campaign killed indiscriminately. It was later found that 80% of all casualties were civilians. Despite killing over 1000 civilians per week, morale remained high (Herring, 1987). The people volunteered to repair the damage showing they would not give up. The North overcame the heavy bombing. They organized 90,000 civilians and dug 30,000 miles of tunnels to keep transportation flowing, additionally the predominantly agricultural economy was resistant to bombing (Herring, 1987). Operation Rolling Thunder was a costly operation. It cost the USA vast sums of money and had little impact on both the economy of North Vietnam and the morale of the