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The United States provided logistical, aerial and artillery support for the operation, but its ground forces were prohibited by law from entering Laotian territory. The objective of the campaign was the disruption of a possible future offensive by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), whose logistical system within Laos was known as the Ho Chi ...
Operation Lam Son 719 (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was an invasion by 20,000 soldiers of the armed forces of South Vietnam of southeastern Laos. The objective of the operation was the disruption of the Ho Chi Minh Trail which supplied PAVN and VC forces in South Vietnam.
15 May–late September 1971: Operation Phoutah, in MR 3; 9–11 June 1971: Operation Phiboonpol, in MR 4; 27 July–31 October 1971: Operation Sayasila, in MR 4; 5 August–25 September 1971: Phou Khao Kham, in MR 5; September 1971: Operation Sourisak Montry, along Thai border of MR 1; 1–9 November 1971: Operation Bedrock (Laos), in MR 4
ARVN armored and airborne invasion of Laos with US airlift and air support along Route 9 to Tchepone to sever the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Route 9: 2163: 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 Barrel Roll was a covert interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos by the United States military between 5 March 1964 and 29 March 1973, concurrent with the Vietnam War. During the operation, U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 dropped 260 million bombs on Laos. [1]
The U.S. announced on Tuesday it would provide an additional $90 million over the next three years to help Laos, heavily bombed during the Vietnam War.
March 1, 1971 - At 1:32 a.m., a bomb planted by Weather Underground explodes outside the U.S. Capitol in protest of the invasion of Laos. April 23, 1971 - A protest tantamount to the November 1969 protest takes place in Washington D.C. June 13, 1971 - The Pentagon Papers begin to be published.
In 1971 the US sponsored an incursion into southern Laos by the South Vietnamese army, with the aim of severing the trail and shoring up the South Vietnamese government as the US withdrew its combat troops. The invasion was bitterly resisted by North Vietnamese and was decisively defeated.