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1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 334,600 on 31 December 1970. [3]: 359 1 January - May 1971. Project Copper was an unsuccessful operation to use three Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-trained Cambodian irregular force battalions to interdict the Sihanouk Trail.
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [4]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.
Information About Records Relating to the Vietnam War Operations Analysis (OPSANAL) System Naval Operations in Vietnam The short film A-1-5 1st Air Cavalry, Bình Tuy Province (1971) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive .
Transfer of equipment and bases from U.S. to South Vietnam: Dec 18 – 29: Operation Linebacker II [3] U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 strategic bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, and mining of Haiphong harbor to force North Vietnam to return to the Paris Peace Talks: Hanoi and Haiphong: 1612
The Easter Offensive, also known as the 1972 spring–summer offensive (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972) by North Vietnam, or the Red Fiery Summer (Mùa hè đỏ lửa) as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, 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 of Vietnam (ARVN, the ...
Operation Popeye / Sober 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.
Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1971" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
April 20, 1972 - Nixon announces plans to reduce U.S. troops in South Vietnam to 49,000 by July 1, 1972. August 29, 1972 - Nixon announces the further withdrawal of U.S. troops in South Vietnam to only 27,000 by December 1, 1972. November 7, 1972 - Nixon wins re-election. January 22, 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson dies.