The airlift effort in the siege of Khe Sanh demonstrated what a well-trained, properly sized and equipped airlift force can do. Aircraft and helicopters allowed U.S. forces to meet all of the varied requirements to keep Khe Sanh operating.
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Daily Quiz for July 12, 2007
On April 30, 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced to a national TV audience American troop movements into this country:
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John Paul Vann: Man and Legend
By the time of his death in Vietnam in June 1972, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann had taken on the highest military authorities in Washington and had earned the respect and trust of a small group of newsmen.
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Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly
The BLT is gone!” The staff sergeant bellowed his message to the major as […]
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Letter From December 2006 Military History Magazine
Uniformity Wearing a uniform is not always a sure sign of the character inside […]
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Operation Niagara: Airlifters to the Rescue
Operation Niagara, the air effort in support of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, is usually thought of in terms of the enormous bomb loads dropped on the surrounding enemy positions, but equally critical was the aerial resupply of the base’s defenders.
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1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry in the Battle of Hoa Hoi
The 9th Cavalry’s Blue Team had found the NVA’s 18th Regiment. Now it was up to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, to ‘fix’ them and finish them off.
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1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts
In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century.
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Running Recon: A Photo Journey With SOG Special Ops Along the Ho Chi Minh Trail (Book Review)
Reviewed by Carl O. Schuster By Frank Greco Paladin Press, Boulder, Colo., 2004 On […]
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U.S. Air Force Airlifts in the 1972 Eastertide Offensive
The North Vietnamese Army had An Loc cut off and besieged. But they could not stop the U.S. Air Force airlifters who kept that outpost alive.