Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu in the air, [a] was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War.
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.
[1] [2] Operation Pierce Arrow: 5 August 1964. [3] Operation Barrel Roll: 14 December 1964—29 March 1973. [4] Operation Flaming Dart: 7 February 1965—24 February 1965. [5] Operation Rolling Thunder: 2 March 1965—2 November 1968. [6] Operation Steel Tiger: 3 April 1965—11 November 1968. [7] Operation Arc Light: 18 June 1965—15 August ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
2 Presidential Unit Citations Captain Michael John Heck (born July 12, 1942) was an American B-52 Stratofortress pilot in the Vietnam War best known for becoming a conscientious objector and refusing to continue flying bombing missions over North Vietnamese targets in late 1972. [ 1 ]
Operation 34A (full name, Operational Plan 34A, also known as OPLAN 34-Alpha) was a highly classified United States program of covert actions against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam), consisting of agent team insertions, aerial reconnaissance missions and naval sabotage operations.
Jack Lambert talks football. Epilogue to seven-part series on Kent State's greatest football team, from the voice of the Golden Flashes' best player.
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.