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Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972. The highly classified program attempted to extend the monsoon season over specific areas of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, to disrupt North Vietnamese ...
Landslides triggered by torrential rains in mountainous northern Vietnam buried a 16-seater van, killing at least 11 people and leaving some missing on Saturday, state media reported. Rescue teams ...
May. Heavy rain hit northern Vietnam from 29-30 May, resulting in serious flooding in Ha Giang, Yen Bai, Cao Bang and Thanh Hoa. In Bac Quang, Ha Giang, five houses were destroyed and one child was killed. In Yen Bai, flash floods killed one man in Văn Chấn Commune. [1] In Cao Bang, flooding swept away more than a dozen houses and killed one ...
Kyōichi Sawada (沢田 教一, Sawada Kyōichi, February 22, 1936, – October 28, 1970) was a Japanese photographer with United Press International who received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. Two of these photographs were selected as "World Press Photos of the Year" in 1965 ...
The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 254 on Friday, authorities said, as flood waters receded and search efforts pressed on. More ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
HANOI (Reuters) -Several Hanoi districts remained flooded on Thursday with the weather agency forecasting little change in water levels of the Red River over the next 24 hours, as floods and ...
79 killed. 106 [ 2 ]: 302 -475 [ 3 ] estimated killed, but only 10 [ 3 ] -18 [ 2 ]: 302 bodies found. The Battle of the Slopes was the site of an engagement between elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate), nicknamed "Westmoreland's Fire Brigade" and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) units, as part of Operation Greeley.