The US waged a bombing campaign in the north of Vietnam in late 1972, and the peak of this campaign was the bombing blitz by B52 aircraft in Hanoi from December 18-29. 

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Hanoi Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai offering incense at the B52 victory monument 

In the night of December 26, 1972, Hanoi’s densely-populated residential areas, including Kham Thien street, the workers’ living quarter in An Duong street and even Bach Mai hospital, were relentlessly attacked by a large number of the US’s B52s.

As many as 278 people, including 91 women, 40 elderly and 55 children, were killed and 178 children became orphans during that air raid.

In remembrance of the victims, a memorial was erected on the used-to-be House No.51 on Kham Thien street. The December 26 bombing destroyed the house and killed all seven people living in it.

* On the same day, a delegation of the Hanoi's Communist Youth Union commemorated Hanoi victims in US’s 1972 airstrike at the monument.

Source: TPO/Dan Tri

Translated by Song Anh