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Hanoi, Vietnam On December 18, 1972, two sorties of hulking US B-52 bombers roared off from the U-Tapao airfield in Thailand and Andersen Air Force Base in Guam to begin what one Air Force officer called"the largest operation in the history of air power." Their destination: Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. Their mission: bomb a city that was considered the most heavily fortified in the world at the time. The mission would be repeated for 11 days straight.
" But the older parts of the city have retained a certain charm. "The old town, north of Hoan Kiem lake, hasn't changed much at all," he said."It's really a neat place." jQuery { $.imageslider; }); The transformation of Hanoi didn't begin until 1986, more than a decade after Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces. That's when Hanoi enacted market reforms to boost the economy, known as Doi Moi.
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