The raids were the first in what would become a three-year program of sustained bombing targeting sites north of the seventeenth parallel.The troops were the first in what would become a three-year escalation of U.S. military personnel fighting a counterinsurgency below the seventeenth parallel. Together, they Americanized a war the Vietnamese had been fighting for a generation
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