During the Christmas Bombings of 1972, officially known as Operation Linebacker II, the U.S. dropped around 20,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam over a period of 11 days, not 100,000 individual bombs. This intense bombing campaign aimed to target military and industrial sites in Hanoi and Haiphong to pressure North Vietnam into negotiations. While the operation was significant in scale, the figure of 100,000 bombs is an exaggeration.
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