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The 96th Strategic Air Wing from Dyess AFB, Texas, deployed for Arc Light in June 1970 for 180 days. Upon completion of the Arc Light deployment, the 376th SW B-52Ds either returned to the continental U.S. or were sent to U-Tapao. The 376th SW then ceased bomber operations, but continued flying Young Tiger tanker missions.
Commando Club was a Combat Skyspot operation for ground-directed bombing of Red River Delta targets (Hanoi, Haiphong, etc.) out of range of the initial Combat Skyspot sites using a specialized radar emplaced by Heavy Green at one of the Laos Sites of the Vietnam War.
U.S. 2nd Air Division operation to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the lower portion of the Laotian panhandle, from Route 9 west of the DMZ, south to the Cambodian border and to reduce North Vietnamese infiltration down the trail into South Vietnam: Southeastern Laos: Dec 9–15: Operation Sweeping Mustang [1] 1/1 Cavalry search and destroy ...
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 1973. [8] Operation Tiger Hound: 5 December 1965—11 November 1968. [9] Operation Commando Hunt: 11 November 1968—29 March 1972. [10] Operation Niagara: January 1968—March ...
Operation Arc Light (1965–1973) Operation Tiger Hound (1965–1968) Operation Shed Light (1966–1972) Operation Carolina Moon (1966) Operation Wahiawa (1966) Operation Bolo (1967) Operation Popeye (1967–1972) Operation Niagara (1968) Operation Igloo White (1968–1973) Operation Giant Lance (1969) Operation Commando Hunt (1968–1972 ...
Operation Pegasus: ~20,000 (1st Air Cavalry and Marine units) Operation Arc Light and operation Niagara: U.S. Air Forces ~40,000 in total, [13] in which: Siege at Khe Sanh: ~17,200 (304th and 308th Division) [14] Defense at Route 9: ~16,900 (320th and 324th Division) [14] 30 light tanks PT-76; Casualties and losses; U.S. losses: At Khe Sanh ...
FFT-59, B Company, 7th Special Forces Group, MAAG Laos: Operation White Star: Laos, Vang Vieng: Training adviser to the Royal Lao Army, presumed killed in a Pathet Lao ambush [7] [9] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] April 22: Moon, Walter H: Captain: US Army: FFT-59, B Company, 7th Special Forces Group, MAAG Laos: Operation White Star ...
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.