Tag: Air Strike

Podcast

2nd March 1965: The United States begins Operation Rolling Thunder alongside the Republic of Vietnam Air Force

2nd March 2023
Tagged as: Air Strike, Aircraft, America, Bombing, Johnson, Operation Rolling Thunder, United States, USA, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese War

Operation Rolling Thunder lasted for three and a half years and saw hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs dropped on North Vietnam.

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1st November 1911: World’s first aerial bombing by Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti on Turkish troops in Libya

1st November 2022
Tagged as: Air Strike, Aircraft, Bombing, Explosion, Hague Convention, Italo-Turkish War, Italy, Libya, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, War

Although nobody was injured during Italy’s attack, the Ottoman Empire complained that aerial bombing contravened the Hague Convention.