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During the Vietnam War, Task Force 77 conducted carrier strike operations from the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea for nine years, from 1964 to 1973. Twenty-one of the Navy's 23 operational carriers made at least one cruise with the Task Force and served over 9,100 days on the line.
Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S.Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, division aircraft carriers operated as part of Task Force 77 from Yankee Station and Dixie Station. During its third Vietnam combat deployment, the Coral Sea implemented a new anti-MiG combat patrol plan developed by the Carrier Division Seven staff.
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primarily by aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes over North Vietnam. While the coordinate's ...
Operation Commando Hunt was a covert U.S.Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign that took place during the Vietnam War.The operation began on 15 November 1968 and ended on 29 March 1972.
Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 strategic bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, and mining of Haiphong harbor to turn back the Easter Offensive: Hanoi and Haiphong: May 17 - Oct: Operation Enhance [6] US resupply of military equipment and consumables to South Vietnam: Jun 3 – 12: Operation Thunderhead [3]
Conducted by more than 200 B-52 bombers from Strategic Air Command supported by tactical planes of the Seventh Air Force and Task Force 77, the raids ran from 18 to 24 December and 26 to 29. The U.S. acknowledged the loss of 16 B-52 bombers, while North Vietnam claimed 34 bombers shot down.
During Cooper's command of Task Force 77, the North Vietnamese launched their Easter Offensive in March 1972. The bombing halt over North Vietnam imposed at the end of Operation Rolling Thunder in November 1968 was lifted and bombing of the North (eventually codenamed Operation Linebacker ) resumed in early April, with the Seventh Fleet ...