Operation Rolling Thunder Essay

Operation Rolling Thunder is one of the largest US air force to strike the NVA (the North Vietnamese Army) during the Vietnam War. It was intend to destroy many industrial buildings in NVA's homeland to cripple their supplies, productions, and others. This would help to reduce the NVA's supplies to their army into the South Vietnam. However, it was the worst and ineffective ways because the NVA has a stronghold with mainly an air defense. This shows with more powerful and effective coordination plans. Even the NVA has suffered major damaged and huge lost of the civilians, it able to rebuild the productions, bridges, and others that are destroyed by the US bombers and fighters. It promoted the NVA to continue fighting more by courage and propaganda …show more content…
As later on, they even expanding the areas for more opportunities to strike multiples areas in enemy territory (“Operation Rolling Thunder”). One of the U.S bombers, B-52 is about to be reload ammo of bombs before taking off to destroy certain targets on NVA's territory (Page 80). Here are examples from US's accomplishment during mission objective in Operation Rolling Thunder. Two years after Operation Rolling Thunder, the US fighters were able to destroy the NVA's iron and steel productions building (Gilmore 119). There is US fighter coming from the US Navy Carrier to launch an attack against NVA near by shore. If there is a worse storm coming in, then the US Navy Aircraft Carrier would have to wait or at least have two planes available to fly (Page 511). One of the US Fighter was given a role of nuclear tactical fighter but instead decided change the role to regular fighter. They also have a support aircraft to help disrupt NVA's air defense and their aircraft. Before the mission begins, the US does recon to observe the enemy information before debriefing to the US commander (Kamps 27). There are problems to most US pilots encounter NVA's tactics, defense and other advantages against the US Air