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During its time at Aviano AB, Sixteenth Air Force was the operational air force for USAF combat operations in the Balkans, supporting Operation Deny Flight, enforcing the U.N. ordered no-fly zone over Bosnia. Sixteenth Air Force aircraft participated in the raid on the Bosnian-Serb held airfield at Udbina in November 1994.
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 2,197 of the losses were fixed-wing, and the remainder rotary-wing. The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the ...
Phù Cát Air Base (Vietnamese: Căn cứ không quân Phù Cát) (1966–1975) was a United States Air Force (USAF) and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility used during the Vietnam War (1959–1975). It is located north of the city of Qui Nhơn in southern Vietnam.
Fourth Air Force: 512 AW: 1 May 1943 Dover AFB, Delaware: C-5M [249] 728th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 446 AW: 1 June 1943 JB Lewis–McChord, Washington: C-17A [250] 729th Airlift Squadron: Air Force Reserve Command: Fourth Air Force: 452 AMW: 1 June 1943 March ARB, California: C-17A [251] 731st Airlift ...
North Vietnam: 20,000 est. 835 Mar 11 – 1972: Operation Market Time [5] Combined U.S. Navy and South Vietnamese Navy effort to stop the flow of supplies from North Vietnam into South Vietnam: South China Sea: Mar 31: Operation Quyet Thang 512 [6]: 17–8 ARVN 5th Airborne Battalion, MAG-16, HMM-163 and HMM-162 air assault
Tuy Hoa Air Base was an air force base in Vietnam, being closed in 1970. It was built by the United States in 1966 and was used by the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Vietnam War in the II Corps Tactical Zone of South Vietnam. It was captured by the People's Army of Vietnam in April 1975 and was
Air and naval gunfire interdiction of lines of communication: southern panhandle of North Vietnam: Jul 22 – 24: Operation Cedar Rapids II [1] 1st and 2nd Battalions, 2nd Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: Bình Dương Province: Jul 23 – Aug 6: Operation Koko Head [1] [30] 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division search and destroy ...
The airfield was originally built in the 1930s by the French to serve as the airfield for Bảo Đại, the last Emperor of Vietnam. USAF units based at Tây Lộc included: 20th Tactical Air Support Squadron (20th TASS) detachments; O-2A of the 20th TASS taxiing for takeoff, Huế Citadel Airfield, July 1967. US Army units based at Tây Lộc ...