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On 19 February after receiving intelligence that the VC 1st Regiment was operating in the Quế Sơn Valley 50 miles (80 km) to the north, BG Platt launched Operation Double Eagle II. BLT 2/3 Marines, 2/9 Marines and 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines were landed at landing zones in the Quế Sơn Valley while 3/1 Marines took up blocking positions ...
Operation Double Eagle II [5]: 34 BLT 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines and 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines search and destroy operation to engage the 1st VC Regiment: Que Son Valley: 125: Feb 18 – 19: Operation Belt Line [1] 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division road clearing and security operation along Route 13: Bình Dương Province: Feb 21 – 27 ...
On 17 May the US forces returned to South Vietnam, leaving the area to the ARVN. [8]: 201 During Operation Binh Tay II from 14–26 May, the Division moved against Base Area 702. The second phase of the operation was carried out between 20 May and 27 June against Base Area 701 by elements of the Division.
Double Eagle was designed by Ed Yost and had a 101,000 cubic foot (2,860 cubic meter) envelope. Abruzzo and Anderson rode in an insulated open gondola measuring 6 by 6.5 feet (1.8 by 2 meters) which was later reused for Double Eagle II. [1]
The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
English: Some specifics and information about the Double Eagle II Gas Balloon Transatlantic Flight, which was piloted by museum namesakes, Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson themselves, with the help of Larry Newman in August 1978.
The Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours 6 minutes after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. [2] The flight was the first manned balloon crossing of the Atlantic non-stop. [3] [2]
Scott T. Barnes, (1987) " BOHICA" Daring Publications ISBN 0-938936-61-1 Operation Grand Eagle and Jerry Daniels aka Michael J Baldwin< BOHICA, published by Daring Books, 1987, US Senate Testimony 1986 code name BOHICA. Timothy N. Castle (1999), One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam, Columbia University Press.