• During Operation Arc Light (sometimes Arclight) from 1965 to 1973, the United States Air Force deployed B-52 Stratofortresses from bases in the U.S. Territory...
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    An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between...
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  • Arclight (redirect from Arc light)
    arclight or arc lamp is a lamp that produces a bright light by generating an electric arc across two electrodes. Arclight, Arc Light or arc light may also...
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    effects of a typical heavy bomber mission. During the Vietnam War's Operation Arc Light program, for example, the United States Air Force sent B-52s on well...
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    A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon...
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    The two jets were part of a 30 airplane deployment on an inaugural Operation Arc Light mission to a military target about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of...
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    An arc flash is the light and heat produced as part of an arc fault, a type of electrical explosion or discharge that results from a connection through...
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  • ArcLight Cinemas was an American movie theater chain that operated from 2002 to 2021. It was owned by The Decurion Corporation, which was also the parent...
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    March 1965, the United States commenced Operation Rolling Thunder. The first combat mission, Operation Arc Light, was flown by B-52Fs on 18 June 1965, when...
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    not be fused like quartz. The end caps of the arc tube would get as hot as 800 degrees C in operation, then cool to room temperature when the lamp was...
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    aircraft aborted takeoff at Kadena Air Base while it was conducting an Operation Arc Light bombing mission to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The fire...
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    missions were supplemented by 1,718 B-52 Stratofortress sorties under Operation Arc Light. During the same time period, 132 U.S. aircraft or helicopters were...
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    during the Viet Nam War the squadron deployed frequently to perform Operation Arc Light bombing missions. Since 1993, the 20th Bomb Squadron has flown the...
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    bombing missions ceased on 15 November 1973. Operation Linebacker II continued the mission of Operation Arc Light, and was most notable for its 11-day bombing...
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    ordered the US military to hold Khe Sanh at all costs. As a result, "B-52 Arc Light strikes originating in Guam, Okinawa, and Thailand bombed the jungles...
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    An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately...
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  • June 18 Armond, Robert L Captain USAF 441st Bombardment Squadron Operation Arc Light South China Sea Pilot of a B-52F #57-0047 that collided with another...
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    A metal-halide lamp is an electrical lamp that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides (compounds...
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  • Air Division Air Division, Provisional, 17 1972–1975 U Tapao RTAB Operation Arc Light 17th Air Division (Provisional) 18th Strategic Aerospace Division...
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    which produce light by a filament heated white-hot by electric current, gas-discharge lamps, which produce light by means of an electric arc through a gas...
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    March 1965, the United States commenced Operation Rolling Thunder. The first combat mission, Operation Arc Light, was flown by B-52Fs on 18 June 1965, when...
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    were transferred to the 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron for Operation Arc Light, operating from Clark Air Base. RB-47H/ERB-47H A total of 32 RB-47H...
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    the management of public affairs. The field involves the organization, operation, and strategic coordination of bureaucratic structures in the public sector...
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    Southeast Asian operation, especially for its operation for the Vietnam War air campaign. Ryan also the early staged of Operation Arc Light, which purpose...
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    during the Vietnam War, when the bombing campaigns Operation Arc Light (1965-1973) and Operation Linebacker II (1972) were flown out of Andersen Air...
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  • different from the release name. Operation Anthropoid – assassination of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague Operation Arc Light – United States Air Force B-52...
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  • List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War (category Military operations of the Vietnam War)
    February 1965. Operation Rolling Thunder: 2 March 1965—2 November 1968. Operation Steel Tiger: 3 April 1965—11 November 1968. Operation Arc Light: 18 June 1965—15...
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    inactivation except for periods when the wing deployed to support Operation Arc Light missions. On 1 July 1962 the wing was reassigned to the 810th Air...
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    when confronted with their necessity as "weather scouts" for his Operation Arc Light missions in Vietnam, but one of his first actions when he was appointed...
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    Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW, also known as tungsten inert gas welding or TIG, and heliarc welding when helium is used) is an arc welding process that...
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