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This first group of orphans would then transfer to charter flights and be welcomed by President Ford upon arriving in the United States in San Diego, California. At 4:15 p.m. the C-5A was over the South China Sea about 13 nautical miles (24 km) off Vũng Tàu , [ 4 ] South Vietnam, flying a heading of 136 degrees and climbing to an altitude of ...
Jan 2: Operation Bolo [6] USAF decoy mission to disguise the electronic signature of F-4 fighter as F-105s in order to lure VPAF MiGs to engage: North Vietnam: 7 MiG 21: Jan 3 – 31: Operation Mang Ho VIII [7] ROK Capital Division search and clear operations: Route 1, Phú Yên Province: 150: Jan 4 – 7: Operation Niagara Falls [1]
An 8–9 man group of VC was engaged by guardpost 15 near Taxiway W-7. Another group of VC crossed the 07/25 runway and attempted to attack the aircraft parking area but were stopped by machine gun fire from bunker Delta 11 which killed 13 VC. [3] Another group of VC entered the C-47 and helicopter parking area. The VC fired and threw hand ...
Map of the demilitarized zone and northern Quang Tri Province during the Vietnam War The original actions in defense of the DMZ, officially designated as Operation Hastings , began on 15 July 1966. Operation Hastings was a strategic success for American and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops as the estimated enemy casualties reached ...
From Hanoi to Hollywood: the Vietnam War in American film. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1586-6. Anderegg, Michael A. (1991). Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-861-2. Hixon, Walter (2000). Historical memory and representations of the Vietnam War. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-3536-9.
Vietnam: la section Anderson at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel; The Anderson Platoon at IMDb "Men at War: A French View". TIME. 17 February 1967. Archived from the original on 22 February 2008. "How One French Director Brought the Vietnam War Home for Americans" by James T. Quinlivan, published at The National Interest on October 22, 2017
A pair of well-worn baby shoes worn by an orphan evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift. With the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang having fallen in March, and with Saigon under attack, on 3 April 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that the U.S. government would begin airlifting orphans out of Saigon on a series of 30 planned flights aboard Military Airlift Command (MAC) C ...
[4] Major General William E. DePuy, as commander of the US 1st Infantry Division, subsequently planned to lure out the VC by using Charlie Company, 2/16th Infantry as a bait. Once the VC attacked the isolated company, DePuy planned to rush in other rifle companies to destroy the VC.