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STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October–November 1995, on board the Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission was the second mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew, who spent 16 days in space, were broken up into 2 teams, the red team and the blue team.
Feb 12 – Apr 4 73: Operation Homecoming [2] Repatriation of U.S. prisoners of war from North Vietnam: Gia Lam Airport: Apr 27 - May 2 74: Operation Svay Rieng [3] Last major ARVN operation with a major thrust against the North Vietnamese 5th Division: Đức Huệ District, Long An Province: 1200
The Americans claimed 647 Viet Cong casualties, took seven prisoners and 65 crew-served and 94 individual weapons. Of the weapons captured, fifty were RPG-2 rocket launchers. The Americans lost 36 killed and 190 wounded. [1]: 140 Documents captured in the area showed that intensive planning had been made by the VC before the attack.
The War of the flags (also known as Landgrab '73) was a phase of fighting throughout South Vietnam lasting from 23 January to 3 February 1973 as the forces of North and South Vietnam each sought to maximize the territory under their control before the ceasefire in place agreed by the Paris Peace Accords came into effect on 27 January 1973.
Lê Minh Đảo (5 March 1933 – 19 March 2020) was a Major general in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He commanded the 18th Division nicknamed "The Super Men", at Xuân Lộc, the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
The South Vietnamese claimed that 496 PAVN had been killed at Fuller for the loss of 29 Marines/ARVN. [158] 26 June. The last units of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Brigade left Da Nang. [9]: 246 27 June. North Vietnam negotiators Le Duc Tho and Xuân Thủy responded to Kissinger's 31 May proposal with a nine-point "bargaining proposal". This was ...
Albert Sacco Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on Shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sacco completed a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 1973, and then a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Phase III of the Tet offensive of 1968 (also known as the August offensive or Third offensive) was launched by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) from 17 August to 27 September 1968. The offensive was divided into two waves of attacks from 17 to 31 August 1968 and from 11 to 27 September of that same year.