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Quill & Pad
April 23, 2018
The year 1968 was one of turmoil. While the United States reached new heights in launching the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon (Apollo 8), all was not well back on earth. Operation Rolling Thunder, the U.S. military's sustained aerial bombardment campaign during the Vietnam War, killedÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
April 12, 2018
Thursday's annual community-wide disaster preparedness drill was built on a nightmare scenario, and participants were starting to realize the gravity of the situation. By 9 a.m., Dr. Christopher Hunter had received several emergency alerts: a car had hit more than 100 people downtown, and in anotherÃâà...
Colorado Springs Gazette
April 10, 2018
... he was part of Operation Rolling Thunder, an early attempt to cripple North Vietnam's fighting capability by destroying supplies and transport routes behind enemy lines. AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN COLORADO SPRINGS PHOTO COLLECTION, COURTESY OF PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT, 412-120.
The Declaration
April 1, 2018
ABINGDON — Eight more people convicted as a result of the Operation Rolling Thunder investigation have been sentenced in federal court, after pleading guilty to ... Operation Rolling Thunder was a joint local, state and federal investigation that sought to dismantle a major drug trafficking organization.
Australasian Transport News
March 22, 2018
The comments come in response questions from ATN regarding the results of Operation Shield and Operation Rolling Thunder, both collected and released by New South Wales government agency Road and Maritime Services. A total of 1,448 notices were issued in the most recent Operation Shield,Ãâà...
Western Queens Gazette
March 21, 2018
That month, the US began Operation Rolling Thunder, a campaign to bomb North Vietnam that went on over three years, until late 1968. Down in Alabama, Americans were fighting and dying for their civil rights. In March, white segregationists murdered a white minister named James Reeb, a freedomÃâà...
The Declaration
March 20, 2018
ABINGDON — An Independence man arrested during the Operation Rolling Thunder investigation was sentenced last week in federal court for his part in a methamphetamine distribution network, and seven more co-defendants ... Operation Rolling Thunder was a joint local, state and federal investigation.
Galax Gazette
March 18, 2018
ABINGDON — An Independence man arrested during the Operation Rolling Thunder investigation was sentenced last week in federal court for his part in a methamphetamine distribution network, and seven more co-defendants are set to be sentenced this week.
The Declaration
March 13, 2018
ABINGDON — Defendants from this area have received sentences, resulting from a federal investigation into a local methamphetamine distribution network. The charges resulted from a joint federal, state and local investigation called Operation Rolling Thunder. They were sentenced in the Western DistrictÃâà...
Galax Gazette
March 10, 2018
More defendants from Operation Rolling Thunder to be sentenced later this month in federal court. By Brian Funk, Editor. Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 11:04 pm. ABINGDON ― Three more locals were sentenced to federal prison last week, resulting from Operation Rolling Thunder, a joint investigation into a localÃâà...
Big Rigs
March 8, 2018
Operation Rolling Thunder followed by Operation Shield means that drivers are continually being made to face the consequences of conditions forced upon them, while the employers responsible get away with it. Drivers get more cameras on every highway, they are blamed for bad loading they don't get toÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Johnson quickly approved Operation Rolling Thunder, which lasted, with brief pauses, for three years, the largest sustained air campaign in the history of warfare. With repeated reassurance from his advisers that eventually a “crossover point” would be reached at which the Communists decided theyÃâà...
The Conversation UK
December 31, 1999
The latest bombing campaign in Syria bears a remarkable and worrying resemblance to one of history's most infamous and flawed military interventions. Operation Rolling Thunder was the aerial assault on North Vietnam which lasted from 1965 to 1968. It was a massive bombardment, hugely destructiveÃâà...
Galax Gazette
December 31, 1999
Another defendant has pleaded guilty, two remain to be sentenced and another faces a federal jury trial. By Brian Funk, Editor. Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 7:18 pm. ABINGDON — Two more people convicted as a result of the Operation Rolling Thunder investigation have been sentenced in federal court, after pleading guiltyÃâà...
CIMSEC
December 31, 1999
... Fleet Intelligence Center Pacific Facility (FICPAC) in Hawaii exploiting imagery during Operation Rolling Thunder early in the war, or at the Fleet Intelligence Center Pacific Facility (FICPACFAC) at Cubi Point in the Philippines later during the bombing of North Vietnam during 1972's Operation Linebacker.
