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Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 5 March 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War. The operation resulted in 260 million bombs being dropped on Laos.
Between May 1964 and the summer of 1969, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the United States Air Force operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces during the Secret War. [4]
7 wrz 2015 · Around 80 million of these bombs failed to detonate upon landing, dangerously contaminating the area and making much of the land surrounding the Plain of Jars unusable.
1 cze 1999 · President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of a bombing halt over North Vietnam caused the intensity of the fighting-and the air war-to increase drastically in two Laotian theaters: the Plain of Jars and the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Between 1964 and 1973, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the US Air Force during a period of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975) known as the by-proxy Secret War operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.
In 1969 the Plain of Jars was a major battlefield between the North Vietnamese and Royal Lao government and was subjected to heavy bombing by the United States. It is now the site of a major Laotian military airfield.
In the spring of 1964 Pathet Lao (Laotian communists) and North Vietnamese troops drove Laotian forces from the Plain of Jars in northern Laos. At first, the USAF only flew unarmed reconnaissance missions.
