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Final Arc Light Strikes

August 15, 1973

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A B-52 aircrew returns from an Arc Light mission over Southeast Asia. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force)

Strategic Air Command B-52s fly the final Arc Light strike missions of the Vietnam War against targets in Cambodia, concluding operations that have been flown almost continuously since 1965.1

1Spencer C. Tucker, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2nd edition; Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 60; Carl Berger, ed., The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1977), 167.