BOMB DAMAGE INFLICTED ON NORTH VIETNAM THROUGH APRIL 1967 SUMMARY

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• Document Release Date: June 5, 2002
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• Publication Date: April 1, 1967
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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C ON NORTH VIETNAM
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Cost of PEM&e
The Rolling Thunder program has achieved significant inroads in
eroding North Vietnam's limited industrial and military base. These
losses, however, have not been sufficient to meaningfully degrade
Hanoi's ability to continue with the war. By the end of April 1967
the air campaign against North Vietnam had inflicted measurable
damage to economic and military target systems estimated at over
$233 million. (See Table 1) Over $165 million -- 70 percent of
total damage -- is accounted for b
tacks against economic targets.
The cost of damage to specific economic and military target systems
is shown in Figure 1 and 2.
In value terms, the greatest share of the damage inflicted on
economic targets was sustained by the so-called logistics target
system -- transportation equipment and facilities, and lines of
communication -- which account for 42 percent of total economic damage.
Most of the damage to military targets systems was inflicted on
barracks and airfields. Each of these systems has sustained over
$19 :million of loge, for a combined total of over 58 percent of
military damage.
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Cost of a U914 .cte~ct on is In North Yietr
Febrary 196 pril 1967
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sic a1 Eff is
The effect of the bombing program has varied with the intensity of
the campaign and the characteristics of the target system under attack.
See Table 2.)
a. Economic T E ets
By the end of April 1967 the US air campaign had attacked
173 fixed targets, over 80 percent on the JCS target list. In physical
the greatest damage has been inflicted on electric power plants
and petroleum storage facilities. Thirteen of 20 JCS-targeted electric
power facilities have been destroyed with a loss of 131,400 kilowatts (kw
or 70 percent of power-generating capacity. One plant at Co Dinh was so
severely damaged that it cannot be repaired. Restoration times for par-
tial operation of most of the remaining plants would be a minimum of four
months but would generally require foreign technical assistance. At
least two plants -? Uong Bi and Haiphong East J-? would require a year
for partial operation to be restored. Complete restoration in every
instance would require at least one year. Although the North Vietnamese
are apparently willing to make the necessary effort when partial
operation can be restored within a short time, they appear willing to
abandon plants when a major reconstruction effort would be required.
All of the 13 major bulk petrolen storage facilities in North
Vietnam have been attacked with a lose of about 85 percent -- 149,400
tons -- of their storage capacity. The North Vietnamese very quickly
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Results of Air Strikes Against JCS Target
EVOtems in North Vietnam
February 1965-April 1967
Target
Number
TarAets
Number
Percent of Cascity Des-
. trp, ed or Inactive
Power plants
20
13
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PO L storage
13
13
85
1.
3
5
ports
6
3
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61
52
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65
50
24
Amts depots
18
18
70
Supply depots
29
22
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Airfields
11
5
19
Bee
5
3
20
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ECONOMIC DAMAGE
MILLION US DOLLARS
1965
36.2
1966
93.3
1967
Jan-Apr
36.2
INDIRECT
LOSSES
(Agriculture,
Fishing
& Exports)
. 9.4
POWER
PLANTS
POWER
PLANTS
6.3
EQUIPMENT
5.9
-PETI
TRANSPORT
EQUIPMENT
29.8
PETROLEUM
5.6
-RAILROAD YARDS 1.2
-MARITIME PORTS 0.8
INDIRECT
LOSSES
(Agriculture, Fishing
& Exports)
36.9
POWER
PLANTS
B.0
INDIRECT
LOSSES
TRANSPORT
EQUIPMENT
MANUFACTURING
FACILITIES
-PETROLEUM 0.1
-RAILROAD YARDS 2.2
MISCELLANEOUS
ARMED RECCE 0.2
Figure I. Value of Economic Damage in North Vietnam, by Sector, 1965,
1966, and Jan-Apr 1967
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MILITARY DAMAGE
1965
32.5
1966
19.1
BARRACKS
. 2.5
AIRCRAFT
B.0
NAVAL -AMMO DEPOTS 0.2
CRAFT -SUPPLY DEPOTS 1.0
1.8
MISCELLANEOUS
ARMED RECCE
SITES
1.1
COMMO SITES 1.0
1967
Jan-Apr
16.0
Figure 2. Value of Military Damage in North Vietnam, by Sector, 1965,
1966, and Jan-Apr 1967
-SUPPLY DEPOTS 1.0
-MISCELLANEOUS
ARMED RECCE 2.6
AIRCRAFT
10.4 -SAM SITES 0.4
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