Marine aircraft provided effective close air support that kept the communists from successfully assaulting the main camp. The aerial bombing campaign was named OPERATION NIAGARA because of the 'waterfall' of bombs that would fall on the communist forces.
Air Force helped the Marines successfully break the siege.Ĭargo aircraft supplied the Marines with 160,000 artillery and mortar rounds they fired during the siege and also removed the wounded. Reminded of how the communists had defeated the French forces at Diem Bien Phu in 1954, the world watched the siege unfold. Marine combat base and its supporting outposts at Khe Sanh in northern South Vietnam. In the first months of 1968, the enemy attempted to capture a strategically located U.S. Entry in an enemy notebook captured at Khe Sanh If someone came to visit this place, he might say that this was a storm of bombs and ammunition which eradicated all living creatures and vegetation whatsoever, even those located in caves or in deep underground shelters.' 'From the beginning until the 60th day B-52 bombers continually dropped their bombs in this area with ever growing intensity and at any moment of the day.
