The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history.
The United States Air Force, the U. S. Navy, and U. S. Marine Corps aviation dropped 7,662,000 tons of explosives.
By comparison, U. S. forces dropped a total of 2,150,000 tons of bombs in all theaters of World War II.
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