These carriers, along with the recently departed Constellation (CVA-64), and Coral Sea (CVA-43), played a key role in blunting the major North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam that commenced on 30 March 1972, as well as playing a key role in the initiation of strike operations into North Vietnam (Operation Linebacker) and in the aerial mining campaign against North Vietnamese ports and coastal waters (Operation Pocket Money). aircraft carriers since World War II, equaled only the Desert Storm deployments in 1990–91. This was the greatest concentration of U.S.
(I recommend reading H-Gram 070/H-070-1 for a full background on the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive.)Īs of July 1972, six attack carriers were engaged in strike operations against North Vietnam and North Vietnamese ground forces in South Vietnam.
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