On February 7, 1965, the U.S. Aviation based armed forces started shelling chose destinations in North Vietnam. This developed into the operation known as Rolling Thunder that started on March 2, 1965, and proceeded to November 2, 1968. Its essential objective was to dishearten the North Vietnamese and lessen their assembling and transportation capacities. An air war was the most that should be possible north of the seventeenth parallel, on the grounds that the utilization of ground troops had been precluded. North Vietnam was a wonder of both the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Red China. On July 9, 1964, China had reported it would venture in if the U.S. assaulted North Vietnam, as China had done in the Korean War. North Vietnamese
