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The 633d Wing inactivated on 15 March 1970. For its actions at Pleiku Air Base, the wing was awarded the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award – with Combat "V" Device and the Republic Of Vietnam Gallantry Cross – with Palm. [11]: 291 On 19 May 1970 a PAVN rocket attack on the base destroyed 1 EC-47 and damaged 2 more.
Naval Operations in Vietnam; Access to primarily Marine Corps, and some Army, Navy and Air Force operational reports at Texas Tech Universities Virtual Vietnam Archives; The short film ACTIVITIES OF THE 3/17 AIR CAVALRY (1970) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
North Vietnam withdrew its diplomats from Cambodia. [3]: 331 26 March. North Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives ...
Bình Định, Phu Bon and Pleiku Provinces: Jan 1 – Mar 31: Operation Greene Lightning [1] 173rd Airborne Brigade operation: Bình Định Province: Jan 1 – Apr 31: Operation Keystone Robin (Charlie) [1] Redeployment of the 1st Cavalry Division, 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment from South Vietnam to the ...
5 September 1970 - 8 October 1971. Operation Jefferson Glenn was the last major ground operation in which U.S. troops participated in the Vietnam War. Three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division patrolled the area west of the city of Huế, called the "rocket belt", to try to prevent PAVN/VC rocket attacks. The Americans were gradually ...
The Pleiku campaign took place from 23 October to 26 November 1965. [1] II Corps Command named it Pleime campaign , with a slightly different starting date of 20 October instead of 23 October, [ 2 ] consisted of three operations: [ 3 ]
Holloway Airfield, 13 April 1966. Camp Holloway was established in 1962. It was located along Route 19 approximately 3km east of Pleiku in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The camp was named in 1963 for Piasecki CH-21 helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Charles E. Holloway, who in December 1962 became the first aviator assigned to the 81st Transportation Company to be killed in action.
the first phase of secret B-52 bombing of eastern Cambodia; the start of a four-year bombing campaign that drew Cambodia into the Vietnam War: eastern Cambodia: Mar 18 – May 28, 1970: Operation Menu [11]: 13 US Strategic Air Command secret bombing of Cambodia: Cambodia: Mar 18 – Feb 28 1971: Operation Frederick Hill [1] [12]: 290