Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Buckley Space Force Base (IATA: BFK, ICAO: KBKF, FAA LID: BKF) is a United States Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado named after United States Army Air Service First Lieutenant John Harold Buckley. The base is run by Space Base Delta 2, with major units including the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 4 (flies the Defense Support Program and ...
Following the departure of the U.S. forces in 1972, Củ Chi became the base of the ARVN 25th Division. [1]As the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces closed in on Saigon in late April 1975, the camp was hit by PAVN artillery fire on 28 April and besieged the PAVN. 25th Division commander Major general Lý Tòng Bá ordered his forces to fight in place, but on the morning of 29 April after ...
Entrance sign at the tunnels. Part of the tunnel complex at Củ Chu, this tunnel has been made wider and taller to accommodate tourists. The tunnels of Củ Chi (Vietnamese: Địa đạo Củ Chi) are an immense network of connecting tunnels located in the Củ Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country.
Phan Trân (father) Hoàng Thị Lệ [1] (mother) Phan Khôi (October 06, 1887 – January 16, 1959) was an intellectual leader who inspired a North Vietnamese variety of the Chinese Hundred Flowers Campaign, in which scholars were permitted to criticize the government, but for which he himself was ultimately persecuted by the Communist Party ...
Kỳ Hà 03/21. 660 feet (201 m) AM2 Marston Mat. Chu Lai Base Area (also known as Chu Lai Combat Base or simply Chu Lai or Kỳ Hà) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in Chu Lai in central Vietnam. Kỳ Hà Air Facility was part of the installation and was located in the northern half, Chu ...
1966. Operation Lightning Bug [1] USAF air interdiction operations. Jan 1 – 8. Operation Marauder / Operation An Dan 564 [2][3]: 30 [4] 1st Infantry Division, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment and ARVN operation in Plain of Reeds area of the Mekong Delta. Hậu Nghĩa Province. 268.
Operation Iraqi Freedom. [1] The 140th Wing (140 WG) is a unit of the Colorado Air National Guard, stationed at Buckley Space Force Base, Aurora, Colorado. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command. The 140th Wing flies the F-16C/D Falcon.
Allied KIA (US Sources) Jan 1 – Mar 31. Operation Skysweep [ 1 ] 1st Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment clear and search operation. Jan 1 – Aug 31. Operation Rice Farmer [ 1 ] 9th Infantry Division and ARVN 5th Regiment operation. Dinh Tuong, Kien Tuong and Kien Hoa Provinces.