Editing Operation Flaming Dart (section)

==Aftermath==
The Operation Flaming Dart raids were later followed by [[Operation Rolling Thunder]], which began a 44-month campaign on 2 March 1965.<ref name=Clodfelter/>{{rp|59}} Other aerial campaigns were also waged during the war. By war's end, the American bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War amounted to the heaviest aerial bombardment in history, totaling 7,662,000 tons of ordnance.<ref name=Clodfelter/>{{rp|225}}