Museum Audio Tour 34: Modern Flight Gallery: SEA War Rolling Thunder

DAYTON, OH, UNITED STATES

12.31.1969

Audio by NMUSAF PA 

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

Although the U.S. Air Force began sending advisory personnel to South Vietnam in 1961, and carried out combat missions in South Vietnam shortly thereafter, U.S. forces did not initially strike North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese Navy attack in the Tonkin Gulf in August 1964, however, led to retaliatory raids by U.S. Navy aircraft. The U.S. Air Force made its first strike against North Vietnam on Feb. 8, 1965, in response to a Viet Cong attack against Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam.

• Date Taken: 12.31.1969
• Date Posted: 09.02.2015 13:26
• Category: Newscasts
• Audio ID: 41947
• Filename: 1509/DOD_102704329.mp3
• Length: 00:06:36
• Album: Museum Audio Tour
• Track #: 34
• Location: DAYTON, OH, US