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In four pages this paper examines the impact of aviation on the military and economy of the United States during the Vietnam War. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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since the Second World War. However, a regional conflict between North and South Vietnam and its subsequent intervention by the United States would change that. Before Lyndon B.
Johnson assumed the presidency after John F. Kennedys assassination, there were only military advisors in South Vietnam.1 However, after the Gulf of Tonkin incident of August 1964, Johnson became
convinced that the only way to conclude the war was with dramatically increased U.S. military participation.2 President Johnson approved the Rolling Thunder campaign against military, transportation, and industrial targets
of North Vietnam in February 1965.3 Rolling Thunder was intended to be a sweeping series of air attacks to force the North Vietnamese to abandon the Viet Cong and
retreat to Hanoi, while at the same time provide stability to the government of South Vietnam.4 Commanded by General William C. Westmoreland, Rolling Thunder would begin by search-and-destroy ground
forces that would be supplemented by intense firepower from the air.5 The aerial campaign required three aircraft types: "slow moving, propeller-driven aircraft; armed transport aircraft; and jet fighters."6 The
19th Tactical Air Support Squadron (also known as TASS) had been offering assistance to the air force of South Vietnam in the form of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and
FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, the military would considerably expand TASS role. Rolling Thunder was not coordinated
by any single air commander and so to offset any air force and navy aircraft interference, North Vietnam was geographically subdivided into route packages.8 In January of 1965, there
were 144 FAC pilots in Southeast Asia; by October 1968, there would be 668.9 Five TASSs began regionally operating hundreds of O-1 and newly developed O-2A Super Skymaster twin-engine
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