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  2. Operation Arc Light - Wikipedia

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    Arc Light missions continued until the cessation of hostilities by U.S. forces on August 15, 1973. Between June 1965 and August 1973, 126,615 sorties (B-52D/F/G) were flown over Southeast Asia. During those operations, the U.S. Air Force lost 31 B-52s; 18 were lost from hostile fire over North Vietnam and 13 from operational causes. [citation ...

  3. Battle of Khe Sanh - Wikipedia

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    He subsequently ordered the US military to hold Khe Sanh at all costs. As a result, "B-52 Arc Light strikes originating in Guam, Okinawa, and Thailand bombed the jungles surrounding Khe Sanh into stubble fields" and Khe Sanh became the major news headline coming out of Vietnam in late March 1968. [71]

  4. Operation Igloo White - Wikipedia

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    The defensive barrier system project had many cover name changes, such as Practice Nine until 14 June 1967, Illinois City (June 1967), Dye Marker (September 1967), Muscle Shoals (September 13, 1967) and finally Igloo White (June 1968). When the air-supported subsystem in eastern and central Laoshe was added in 1967, the project was named Muscle ...

  5. Ken Gatward - Wikipedia

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    Following the death of his wife in 2012, Gatward's medals were put up for sale on 30 November 2012 at Colchester auctioneers Reeman Dansie with an estimate of £8,000. The medals, along with cartoons of the Paris attack, original photographs and congratulatory telegrams sold for £41,000.

  6. Sliding filament theory - Wikipedia

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    Cross-bridge theory states that actin and myosin form a protein complex (classically called actomyosin) by attachment of myosin head on the actin filament, thereby forming a sort of cross-bridge between the two filaments. The sliding filament theory is a widely accepted explanation of the mechanism that underlies muscle contraction.

  7. Rainbow Bridge explosion: Niagara Falls casino reveals couple ...

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    The car that exploded at Rainbow Bridge on the border of the US and Canada is not related to a terrorism attack, the FBI in Buffalo and New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Wednesday.

  8. Battle of Ap Bac - Wikipedia

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    The South Vietnamese M113s had no problem crossing the generally shallow streams and rivers typical of the Mekong Delta, [38] but the heavy 10-ton M113s became bogged down in the deeper Cong Ba Ky Canal, forcing the crews and the infantry company on board to cut down brush and trees and fill the canal until it was shallow enough for the M113s ...

  9. Cars pile up on Louisiana's Causeway Bridge after thick fog ...

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    St. Tammany Parish Fire District #4, in an update around 9:50 a.m. Tuesday, had said fire units were dealing with an 11-vehicle crash on the southbound span of the Causeway Bridge. "As a result ...