This book explores the unique problem of defending air bases during the Vietnam War. It centers on the primary efforts of the United States Air Force and allied air units to defend 10 key air bases within the Republic of Vietnam. Bien Hoa, on 1 November 1964, was the first base to be...
Vietnam War Stories being a Narrative of the War Experiencesof the First Platoon, A Co., 1/8 Cav., First Air Cavalry Division, 1967-1968 Contributors: Richard Lewis Dieterle, Jerry Prater, Doc Jim Aguirre, Vic Castle, Lt. Jerome Church, Larry Douglas, Michael Dyess, Doc Don Ferguson, Lo...
The Phantom is shown inverted as Colonel Olds maneuvers to fire an AIM-9B Sidewinder heat-seeking missile at a North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 over Hanoi. Robin Olds was the only U.S. Air Force ace with victories in both World War II and Vietnam. ...
In the end, the military campaign was calledOperation Ranch Hand, but it originally went by a more appropriately hellish appellation: Operation Hades. As part of this Vietnam War effort, from 1961 to 1971, the United States sprayed over 73 million liters of chemical agents on the country to...
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The Patrol Boat Riverine was one of the most important fighting vessels that played a key role in protecting U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.
Korean War (APS); Vietnam War (APS-SPS); Terrorist Wars (SFS, Iraq, Afghanistan) Legacy:No Air Base Guarded by USAF APS/SPS/SFS Squadrons has ever been overran or conquered by an enemy! Bases & Squadrons K-9 Growl Pad Rosters
from the early days of the bases construction. Scans were provide by: A1C Dave Marks Security Police 35th Air Police Sq. Panther Flight (66-67) PRESS YOUR 'BACK' KEY IN YOUR BROWSER TO RETURN TO THIS PAGE. Press to open Dave's images ...
and South Vietnamese forces attack communist bases across the Cambodian border in the Cambodian Incursion. • May 4, 1970: In a bloody incident known as the Kent State Shooting, National Guardsmen fire on anti-war demonstrators at Ohio’s Kent State University, killing four students and ...
The USA, which in large measure had taken upon itself the conduct of the war against the patriotic forces of South Vietnam, simultaneously organized acts of armed aggression against the DRV. In early August 1964, the navy and air force of the USA bombarded and fired on a number of ...