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| x Vietnam War |
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War military conflict that which may be said to have occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist...
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| x Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate incidents involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 two American destroyers engaged three North Vietnamese...
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| x Mayagüez incident |
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The Mayagüez incident involving the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia on May 12–15, 1975, marked the last official battle of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans killed are the last names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, as...
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| x Operation Tailwind |
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Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos by a company-sized element of U.S. Army Special Forces and Montagnard commando (Hatchet Force) of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG or...
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| x Secret War |
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The Laotian Civil War (1953-1975) was an internal fight between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political rightists and leftists received heavy external support for a proxy war from the global Cold War...
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| x Tết Offensive |
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The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Forces of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam, or Viet Cong, and the People's Army of Vietnam, or North Vietnamese army, fought against the...
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| x Operation Rolling Thunder |
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) aerial bombardment campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ...
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| x Battle of Khe Sanh |
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The Battle of Khe Sanh was conducted in northwestern Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), between 21 January and 8 April 1968 during the Vietnam War. The combatants were elements of the United States (U.S.) III Marine Amphibious...
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| x Cambodian Civil War |
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The Cambodian Civil War was a conflict that pitted the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (known as the Khmer Rouge) and their allies the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Front for the Liberation of South...
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| x Operation Ivory Coast |
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Operation Ivory Coast was a military operation conducted in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War by United States Special Operations Forces.
On November 21, 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brig....
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| x Battle of Dak To |
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| x Operation Linebacker II |
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Operation Linebacker II was a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombardment campaign, conducted against targets in North Vietnam during the final period of the American commitment to the Vietnam War. The operation was...
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| x Operation Commando Hunt |
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Operation Commando Hunt was a covert U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign that took place during the Vietnam War. The operation began on 15 November 1968 and ended on 29 March 1972. The objective of the...
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| x Eastertide Offensive |
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The Easter Offensive, officially, the Nguyen Hue Offensive and also (Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) against the Army of the Republic...
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| x Operation Starlite |
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Operation Starlite was the first offensive military action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War. The operation was launched based on intelligence provided by Major General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the commander of the South...
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| x Battle of Lang Vei |
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The Battle of Lang Vei was a battle of the Vietnam War fought on the night of 6 February 1968, between elements of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the United States-led Detachment A-101, 5th Special Forces Group.
Lang Vei was an American...
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| x Operation Igloo White |
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Operation Igloo White was a clandestine United States Air Force electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and...
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| x Battle of Ia Drang |
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The Battle of Ia Drang was one of the first major battles between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War. The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones ...
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| x Battle of Long Tan |
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The Battle of Long Tần was fought between the Australian Army and Viet Cong forces in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tần, about twenty seven kilometres north east of Vung Tau, South Vietnam on 18 August 1966. It is arguably the most...
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| x Battle of Dong Xoai |
The Battle of Đồing Xoài was waged by the National Liberation Front, otherwise known as the Viet Cong, during the Communist winter-spring offensive of 1965. It was the largest battle during that stage of the Vietnam War.
Following their triumph at...
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| x Operation Chopper |
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Operation Chopper occurred on January 12, 1962 and was the first time US forces participated in major combat in the Vietnam War.
In December of 1961, the USNS docked in Saigon with 82 US Army Piasecki H-21 helicopters. A little more than 12 days...
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| x Fall of Saigon |
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The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese army on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of...
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| x Battle of Ap Bac |
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The Battle of Ap Bac was a small-scale battle early in the Vietnam War (1959–1975) which resulted in the first major combat victory by the Viet Cong against regular South Vietnamese and American forces.
The battle took place on January 2, 1963, near...
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| x Operation Linebacker |
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Operation Linebacker was the title of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its...
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| x Operation Hastings |
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Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War.
Having been threatened by numerous encounters with enemy troops in the Cam Lo area, on July 7, 1966, United States Marine Corps General Lew Walt led a joint U.S. Marine and...
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| x Battle of Hamburger Hill |
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The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle of the Vietnam War which was fought between the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnamese forces from May 10–20, 1969. Although the heavily fortified Hill 937 was of little strategic value, U...
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| x Operation Jefferson Glenn |
Operation Jefferson Glenn ran from September 5, 1970 to October 6, 1971 and was the last major operation in which U.S. ground forces participated in Vietnam. There were 2,026 known enemy casualties.
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| x Opposition to the Vietnam War |
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Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War is significant because it was the first time a war was shown and accessed through the media to the public in the United States.
Avoiding service in the Vietnam War later became an issue in...
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| x Operation Union |
Operation Union was a military operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment. The object of the operation was the 2nd...
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| x Operations Malheur I and Malheur II |
Operation Malheur I and Operation Malheur II were a series of military actions conducted by the United States army during the Vietnam War, from May to August 1967. The operations involved the devotion of U.S. Army resources to assist United States...
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| x Operation Junction City |
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Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on 22 February 1967 during the Vietnam War. It was the largest U.S. airborne operation since Operation...
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| x Operation Menu |
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Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War. The supposed targets of these attacks were sanctuaries...
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| x Battle of Coral-Balmoral |
The Battle of Coral-Balmoral was a notable series of significant actions fought in May and June 1968 during the Vietnam War, between the 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) and communist forces, north-east of Saigon. In response to intelligence...
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| x Cambodian Incursion |
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The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States (U.S.) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. A total...
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| x Battle of Xuân Lộc |
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The Battle of Xuân Lộc also known as "the last stand at Xuân Lộc", was the last major battle of the Vietnam War that took place in Xuân Lộc, Đồng Nai Province. Over a period of twelve days, the ARVN 18th Infantry Division attempted to stop three...
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| x United States Air Force In South Vietnam |
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What began as a military aid program by the United States in 1950 to assist the French in subduing communist rebels in French Indochina, became, by 1965 an all-out war between South Vietnam and North Vietnam in which the United States was deeply...
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| x United States Air Force In Thailand |
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The United States Air Force deployed combat aircraft to Thailand from 1961 to 1975 during the Vietnam War. Today, USAF units train annually with other Asian Air Forces in Thailand. Royal Thai Air Force Bases are an important element in the Pentagon...
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| x Battle of the Iron Triangle |
The Battle of the Iron Triangle took place on May 16, 1974, when the 9th Division of the Vietnam People's Army backed by a small contingent of tanks launched an attack on Rach Bap, took possession of An Dien and pushed south towards Phu Cuong.
The...
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| x Battle of Bình Gia |
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The Battle of Bình Gia (Vietnamese: Trận Bình Giã), which was part of a larger communist campaign, was conducted by the Viet Cong from December 28, 1964, to January 1, 1965, during the Vietnam War in Binh Gia (Vietnamese: Bình Giã), Phuoc Tuy ...
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| x Battle of An Lao |
The Battle of An Lao occurred after the Viet Cong captured the district headquarters of An Lao, about 300 miles from Saigon. The Viet Cong were successful in repeatedly beating back large numbers of counterattacking ARVN troops.
The strength of the...
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| x Battle of Song Be |
The Battle of Song Be was a major action between the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Viet Cong) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in May 1965.
Planned as a major show of force against the rapidly collapsing ARVN forces,...
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| x Battle of Ba Gia |
The Battle of Ba Gia or Bãi Xoan was a battle of the Vietnam War, that began after an ARVN battalion was ambushed by Viet Cong (VC) forces on May 28, 1965. The battle highlighted the vulnerability of the ARVN as a military force against the flexible...
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| x Battle of Kompong Speu |
The Battle of Kompong Speu began on June 12, 1970 when the combined forces of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian Armies fought to recapture the provincial capital of Kompong Speu. The town was captured by Communist forces on June 13 but was retaken...
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| x Battle of Prey Veng |
The Battle of Prey Veng was part of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam's campaign in Cambodia. It took place in Prey Veng on June 15, 1970, where ARVN and Cambodian troops battled the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong forces. It ended with an...
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| x Operation Chenla II |
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Operation Chenla II was a major military operation conducted by the Cambodian military (then known as FANK) during the Cambodian Civil War. It began on August 20 and lasted until December 3, 1971.
During the days of Prince Norodom Sihanouk's rule in...
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| x Ho Chi Minh Campaign |
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The Ho Chi Minh Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh), was the final title applied to a series of increasingly large-scale and ambitious offensive operations by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the National Front for...
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| x Operation Masher/White Wing |
Operation Masher was a combined U.S., ARVN, and ROKA operation that began on January 28, 1966. The name "Operation Masher" was changed to "Operation White Wing", because the name was deemed too crude for 'nation-building'.
The mission was a search...
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| x Operation Attleboro |
Operation Attleboro was a search and destroy operation by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade. The operation was named after Attleboro, Massachusetts, where the brigade had been formed. Initial fighting was light. In late October, US forces consisting...
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| x Operation Lam Son 719 |
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Operation Lam Son 719 (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South...
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| x Battle of Buôn Ma Thuột |
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The Battle of Buôn Ma Thuột was part of North Vietnam's Campaign 275 to capture the Central Highlands following the victory at Phuoc Long on January 6, 1975.
Buôn Ma Thuột was selected as the first objective during the Central Military Party...
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| x Battle of Phuoc Long |
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The Battle of Phuoc Long took place in Phuoc Long Province, about 100km from South Vietnam's capital, Saigon, at present day Phuoc Binh. The campaign against Phuoc Long reflected North Vietnam's change in policy after the strategic raids of 1974,...
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| x Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord |
The Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord was a 23 day battle between the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and the North Vietnamese Army from July 1, 1970 until July 23, 1970. It was the last major confrontation between United States ground forces...
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| x Operation Dewey Canyon |
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Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major offensive by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It took place from January 22 through March 18, 1969 and involved a sweep of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)-dominated A Shau Valley by the...
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| x Operation Hump |
Operation Hump was a search and destroy operation initiated on 5 November 1965 by the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in an area about 17.5 miles north of Bien Hoa. The 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, deployed south of the Dong Nai River while the...
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| x Operation Hong Kil Dong |
Operation Hong Kil Dong was the largest South Korean operation of the Vietnam War.
The operation was a major success as South Korean forces thwarted Communist infiltration into friendly areas.
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| x Battle of Go Cong |
The Battle of Go Cong was a small battle during the Vietnam War. It took place on September 3, 1963, after the General Staff of the National Liberation Front called for "another Ap Bac" on South Vietnamese forces.
The battle was won by United States...
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| x Battle of Chan La |
The Battle of Cha La was a battle of the Vietnam War. The assault by Viet Cong forces was one in a series of attacks since the battle of Ap Bac back in January.
The Viet Cong attacked what it called an "extermination camp" in Cha La (Vietnamese: Chà...
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| x Operation Quyet Thang 202 |
Operation Quyet Thang 202 was a 1964 Army of the Republic of Vietnam operation carried out with US support.
The one month-long operation ended with heavy damages to the People's Liberation Armed Forces's (Viet Cong) communication line that linked Do...
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| x Battle of Hill 723 |
The Battle of Hill 723 occurred during the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos in 1971. The battle lasted from March 7 to March 16 when the ARVN was defeated by the North Vietnamese Army.
When the South Vietnamese Army moved towards Hill 723 along...
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| x Operation Chenla I |
Operation Chenla I was an operation of the Vietnam War. The Cambodian armed forces launched the operation during late August 1970 with limited air support from the South Vietnamese army and air force. The operation was terminated in February 1971,...
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