Operation Rolling Thunder - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The botched execution of this 1965 to 1968 bombing campaign infuriated pilots and commanders, as they were not allowed to target airfields or ports. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this US campaign of “gradual escalation” over North Vietnam, which indiscriminately destroyed low-priority targets to force the north to begin peace negotiations.

ANSWER: Operation Rolling Thunder

[10h] Rolling Thunder operated in conjunction with this herbicidal warfare campaign in the south, which destroyed over 500,000 acres of forest with Agent Orange to expose Viet Cong supply lines.

ANSWER: Operation Ranch Hand

[10e] American opposition to Rolling Thunder was solidified after the failure of William Westmoreland during this North Vietnamese campaign by the Viet Cong, which occurred over, and is named for, the 1968 lunar New Year.

ANSWER: Tet Offensive

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	12.00	90%	30%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	18.89	100%	89%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	12.50	83%	42%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	21.25	100%	63%	50%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley B	Berkeley D	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	10	0	10	20
UCLA A	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
UCSD A	UCLA B	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	Carleton University	10	0	10	20
Guelph	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
Western C	McGill B	0	0	10	10
Brock	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Queen's	Simon Fraser	0	0	10	10
Toronto C	Toronto D	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
Western A	UBC A	0	0	0	0
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	0	0	10	10
Central Florida A	Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Central Florida B	10	0	10	20
Florida C	Central Florida C	10	0	10	20
UCSD B	UCSD C	10	0	10	20
Ohio State B	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
CWRU B	Ohio State C	0	0	10	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan State	10	0	10	20
Duke	NC State A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	10	0	10	20
VCU	James Madison B	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
Virginia	NC State B	10	0	10	20
William and Mary	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
South Carolina A	Wake Forest	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	North Carolina C	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	0	10	20
Illinois B	Illinois A	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Indiana B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Northwestern D	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Notre Dame B	Chicago D	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	10	20
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Yale	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis A	Dartmouth B	0	0	10	10
Brown	MIT	0	0	10	10
Washington A	Claremont	10	10	10	30
Iowa State	Missouri B	10	0	10	20
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Washington B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Murray State A	10	0	10	20
Bruin	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Mississipi State	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	0	10	10
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	WashU B	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Cardiff	10	0	10	20
UCL	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
Bristol	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
City St. George's	Imperial C	10	0	10	20
LSE	Durham	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Montpellier	0	0	10	10
Cambridge B	Oxford A	0	0	10	10
Oxford B	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown	Columbia A	10	10	10	30
Columbia C	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins B	Vassar	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Maryland C	NYU B	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Rutgers A	Swarthmore	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	10	10
Cornell A	Cornell C	10	0	10	20
Penn State	RIT	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Rochester	10	10	10	30