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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 ...
In 1967 a helicopter-transportable variant of the AN/MSQ-77 in rigid shelters was developed for Commando Club bombing of northern North Vietnam targets (Red River Delta), and in 1969 training for an additional transportable variant with tower-mounted antenna and digital computer was being conducted at the Reeves Instrument Corporation in New York.
196th Light Infantry Brigade search and destroy operation to position a blocking force for Operation Cedar Falls: Ho Bo Woods, Tây Ninh Province: Jan 6 – 15: Operation Deckhouse V/Operation Song Than [1] [9]: 151–4 SLF 1st Battalion, 9th Marines and 3rd and 4th Battalions Vietnamese Marines operation supported by HMM-362 from the USS Iwo Jima
By March 1967, 15,000 Skyspot sorties had been flown, and raids controlled by AN/MSQ-77s included those of Operation Menu from Bien Hoa Air Base, Operation Niagara, [12] and Operation Arc Light. Additional AN/MSQ-77 missions included those with MC-130 Commando Vault aircraft to clear landing zones and at least 1 helicopter evacuation of wounded ...
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
The United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-52D Stratofortress (serial number 55-0103) of the 4252d Strategic Wing had a full bomb load and broke up and caught fire after the aircraft aborted takeoff at Kadena Air Base while it was conducting an Operation Arc Light bombing mission to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. [4]
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Under Operation Arc Light, wing bombers flew over 35,000 strikes over South Vietnam from 1967 to 1970. [ 11 ] : 256 In early-October 1968, a KC-135A tanker (55-3138) [ 13 ] lost power in the outside right engine (#4) on takeoff at U-Tapao and crashed, killing all four crew members.