Operation Linebacker

responded by launching Operation Linebacker, a massive strategic bombing campaign, and Operation Pocket Money, the mining of North Vietnamese ports. The latter operation chiefly targeted the harbor at Haiphong, and it effectively functioned as a naval blockade of the North. Deprived of much-needed war matériel from their Chinese…

…Nixon, in an operation code-named Linebacker, unleashed U.S. air power against the North, mined Haiphong Harbour (the principal entry point for Soviet seaborne supplies), and ordered hundreds of U.S. aircraft into action against the invasion forces and their supply lines. By mid-June the communists’ Easter Offensive had ground to a…