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The Phoenix Program (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Phụng Hoàng) was designed and initially coordinated by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, involving the American, South Vietnamese militaries, and a small amount of special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam.
Apr 1 – 7: Operation York [1] 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment search and destroy operation: III Corps: Apr 1 – 11: Operation Orange [19] 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines search and destroy operation: near Thường Ðức, 40 km southwest of Da Nang, Quảng Nam Province: 57: 18 Apr 2 – 13: Operation Bun Kae 66-5 [2] ROK Capital Division ...
[citation needed] After suffering a major defeat at Dien Bien Phu on May 7, 1954, France lost control of Viet Nam above latitude 17 degrees north; this came to be the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. Soviet- and Chinese-made weapons and captured American ones given to the North Vietnamese army by China played a key role in the defeat of France.
Ravens with a T-28D Trojan at Long Tieng, Laos, 1970. The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots (special operations capable) unit used as forward air controllers (FACs) in a clandestine and covert operation in conjunction with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Laos during America's Vietnam War.
The Phoenix Project is a 2015 American science fiction film written and directed by Tyler Graham Pavey. Corey Rieger, Andrew Simpson, David Pesta, and Orson Ossman star as scientists who attempt to reanimate the dead.
May 3 – 7: Operation Gulf [1] 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: May 3 – Jun 7: Operation Leeton [1] 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment search and destroy operation: Phước Tuy Province: May 4 – 5: Operation Lam Son 48 [1] ARVN 1st Division operations: Thừa Thiên and Quảng Trị ...
The recruitment of PRU personnel varied from province to province. Many PRU members were former VC or former Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers. Some were former Special Forces soldiers or former members of a Citizen Irregular Defense Group (CIDG), while a few were simply local youths who did not want to join the regular ARVN and preferred to serve their country in their own home ...
In 1965-66 Brickham was the senior CIA officer in charge of Foreign Intelligence Field Operations throughout South Vietnam. In 1966 Saigon station chief John Limond Hart assigned Brickham to Robert Komer 's staff, where in late 1966 to June 1967 Brickham developed ICEX-SIDE (later renamed the Phoenix Program ) as a single organizational ...