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Nha Trang Airport (IATA: NHA, ICAO: VVNT) (also known as Camp McDermott Airfield and Long Van Airfield) was a French Air Force, Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF), United States Air Force (USAF) and Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) (Khong Quan Nhan Dan Viet Nam) military airfield used during the Vietnam War.
At the beginning of 1967 the United States was engaged in a steadily expanding air and ground war in Southeast Asia. Since its inception in February 1965, Operation Rolling Thunder, the bombing campaign against North Vietnam, had escalated in the number and significance of its targets, inflicting major damage on transportation networks industry, and petroleum refining and storage facilities.
[7]: 12–3 By early 1968, MIUWS 23 at Qui Nhon was replaced by IUWU-3 and at Nha Trang MIUWS 22 was replaced by IUWU-4. [8] During June 1967 Stable Door patrols detected 38,000 junks and sampans, over 7,000 of these were inspected. Of the 4,175 craft boarded, 31 were detained along with 140 persons. [9]
Detachment B-57 arrived in South Vietnam in June 1967. On 26 February 1968 it was moved from Saigon to Nha Trang and it received the designation Project GAMMA on 1 April 1968, in conjunction with other special forces units such as Project DELTA (Detachment B-52), responsible for special reconnaissance.
1st Logistical Command movement of the ROK 9th Division from Nha Trang to Tuy Hòa: Aug 11 – Apr 1967: Operation Pink Rose [33] ARPA, US Forest Service and USAF operational testing of techniques to dry out and start forest fires: Tây Ninh and Phước Long Provinces: Aug 12 – 14: Operation El Dorado [1]
Dong Ba Thin Base Camp was established on Highway 1 at Dong Ba Thin, 4 km northwest of Cam Ranh Base and 22 km south of Nha Trang in 1964. [1]Dong Ba Thin hangar construction, 21 September 1967
The year of 1967 started badly for the Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF). During the early years of the war, the rules of engagement prevented U.S. fighter-bombers from hitting North Vietnamese air bases, and that allowed North Vietnamese fighter pilots to attack American bomber formations as they were approaching their targets, thereby forcing U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads before ...
In 1967, seventeen Nobel laureates and 5,000 other scientists signed a petition asking for the immediate end to the use of herbicides in Vietnam. [ 29 ] In 1970, AAAS sent a team of scientists—the Herbicide Assessment Commission (HAC), consisting of Matthew Meselson, Arthur Westing , John Constable, and Robert Cook—to conduct field tests of ...