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While the bombing of North Vietnam had ceased in November 1968, U.S. aircraft continued to conduct reconnaissance flights over the North and responded to radar-tracking and antiaircraft fire with "protective reaction" strikes which numbered more than 100 by the year-end and culminated in a five-day bombing campaign in late December.
On 21 May 1971 30 US infantrymen, many from Company A, 1st Battalion, 61st Infantry Regiment, were killed when a People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) 122mm rocket hit their bunker at Charlie 2. [ 6 ] On 1 April 1972 in the face of the PAVN's Easter Offensive the base was abandoned by the ARVN.
The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5.
1529 ARVN KIA, 625 MIA, 215 US KIA, 38 MIA Mar 1 – Jul 1: Operation Finney Hill [1] [4] 11th Infantry Brigade and 198th Infantry Brigade operation: Quảng Ngãi Province: 781: 93 Mar 1 – Jul 1: Operation Middlesex Peak [1] 196th Infantry Brigade, 198th Infantry Brigade and ARVN 2nd Division operation: Quang Tin and Quảng Ngãi Provinces ...
Beginning with 1971, a three-day Memorial Day Weekend became an annual observance within the U.S. federal government and by nearly all of the U.S. states, as the scheduled Memorial Day was fixed permanently for federal agencies as the last Monday in May, pursuant to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Public Law 90-363. From 1868 to 1970, Memorial ...
Updated May 9, 2024 at 12:08 AM Human remains discovered 49 years ago near Flagstaff, Arizona, have been identified as those of a man who served in Vietnam and was originally from Minnesota ...
Member of 6-man reconnaissance team Asp that was inserted near the Vietnam/Laos border on 3 May. Radio contact with the team was lost on 4 May. [233] The remains of the 3rd American team member SFC Lewis C. Walton were identified in 2006 [234] Presumptive finding of death [3] May 10: Luttrell, James M: Staff Sergeant: US Army: RT Asp, MACV-SOG
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