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South Vietnamese assumption of responsibility for tactical air control, a process in which FACs, trained in South Vietnam and flying newly acquired O–1s, played a key part—moved ahead during 1970.
3 sie 2016 · The following listing covers port visits for carriers (CV, CVA, CVAN, CVS) deployed to Vietnam during the conflict. Sources for the information are listed in the text. Compiled in August 2003...
1967 USS Forrestal fire - Wikipedia. On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk.
21 lut 2019 · A Navy EC-121 aircraft crashed at DaNang Air Base, killing 22 Americans on board. Another nine men on board the aircraft, and two Air Force men on the ground, were injured. The U. S. Coast Guard decommissioned the second of its three Vietnam Divisions in ceremonies at DaNang.
With Rolling Thunder strikes ended, the aircraft carriers at Yankee Station shifted operations to Viet Cong and infiltrating North Vietnamese Army targets in South Vietnam and against the logistics supply routes in enemy-occupied Laos, the so called Ho Chi Minh Trail.
4 cze 2014 · For their strikes in North Vietnam, Laos, and South Vietnam, attack aircraft dropped 250-, 500-, 1,000-, and 2,000-pound general purpose bombs, napalm bombs, and magnetic mines, and fired...
19 sie 2020 · Accidental fires ignited three U.S. aircraft carriers during the Vietnam War, killing 206 American sailors and injuring 631 others.
