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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...
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  • Roll (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe Barrel roll (turn), a type of airborne rotation performed in dance Operation Barrel Roll...
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    to the Commander USSAG/Seventh Air Force at Nakhon Phanom.: 52  Operation Barrel Roll was a covert USAF 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force) and...
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    Vietnam as an extension of his area of operations. The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed. Unlike Operation Barrel Roll and Steel Tiger, however, the bombing...
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    the trail system had begun on 14 December 1964 with the advent of Operation Barrel Roll. Due to increasing U.S. intelligence of the build-up of regimental-size...
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    Lao government. On 14 December 1964, the U.S. Air Force's (USAF) "Operation Barrel Roll" carried out the first systematic bombardment of the Hồ Chí Minh...
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    flown into Laos and into Cambodia including Operation Barrel Roll strikes in 1969. The Patricia Lynn operation was terminated in mid-1971 with the inactivation...
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  • February 1973: Operation Barrel Roll, in MR 2 31 January 1965: 1965 Laotian coups, in MR 5 3 April 1965 –11 November 1968: Operation Steel Tiger in MR...
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    recommended a "graduated" response program, urging Johnson to launch Operation Barrel Roll, a bombing offensive against North Vietnamese supply lines along...
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  • 11, 1968. Other aerial campaigns (Operation Barrel Roll, Operation Steel Tiger, Operation Tiger Hound, and Operation Commando Hunt) were directed to counter...
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  • List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War (category Military operations of the Vietnam War)
    January 1962—January 1965. Operation Pierce Arrow: 5 August 1964. Operation Barrel Roll: 14 December 1964—29 March 1973. Operation Flaming Dart: 7 February...
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    aircraft. They both struck and directed forward air control in the Operation Barrel Roll area of Laos. They also hunted supply trucks along the Trail. Between...
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    Plain of Jars activities expanded by December 1964, were named Operation Barrel Roll, and were under the control of the U.S. ambassador to Laos, who...
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  • infiltrators into Laos, Yankee Team morphed into Operation Barrel Roll. During the two periods of sustained air operations against North Vietnam (March 2, 1965,...
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    campaigns under Operation Barrel Roll, which made Laos "the most heavily bombed nation in history", and Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal. After...
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  • July, supported by 60 sorties per day of tactical air strikes from Operation Barrel Roll. In the event, the 1 July offensive ran afoul of its Neutralist...
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  • supplied the first rudiments of forward air control to Operation Steel Tiger and Operation Barrel Roll. When that assignment was superseded by Raven Forward...
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  • June 13 Ward, Neal C 1st Lieutenant USAF 602nd Special Operations Squadron Operation Barrel Roll Laos His A-1 was shot down Presumptive finding of death...
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    U.S. aerial operations against the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun on 14 December 1964 with Operation Barrel Roll. With the onset of Operation Rolling Thunder...
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    task was night operations as flareships supporting the Hmong guerrillas of General Vang Pao's Clandestine Army in the Operation Barrel Roll area. At times...
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  • 18 Gillen, Thomas E Major USAF 435th Tactical Fighter Squadron Operation Barrel Roll Laos, Xiangkhouang Province Pilot of F-4D #66‑7526 shot down on...
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  • January 16 Wood, Don C Captain USAF 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron Operation Barrel Roll Laos, Plain of Jars His F-105D #59–171 was shot down while conducting...
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    : 230–2  Commencing in December 1964, Da Nang AB was used to support Operation Barrel Roll, the covert air war in neighbouring Laos. On 14 December F-105s...
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    were too extreme for him. Johnson agreed to their advice to launch Operation Barrel Roll to bomb the Lao section of the Ho Chi Minh trail and for more 34A...
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  • 9–20, 1975 Operation Farm Gate Operation Chopper (1962) Operation Ranch Hand (1962–1971) Operation Pierce Arrow (1964) Operation Barrel Roll (1964–1972)...
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    was heavily bombed first as part of Operation Barrel Roll and later as part of Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Commando Hunt. By March 1966, it was...
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  • 559, Ho Chi Minh trail Battles/wars Operation Barrel Roll Operation Rolling Thunder Operation Steel Tiger Operation Commando Hunt Operation Tiger Hound...
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    fighter aircraft. Lt. Saibory later trained NVAF pilot Nguyen Van Ba in the operation of the T-28, where Nguyen flew the T-28 in its first successful interception...
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  • their troops. The United States Air Force response was twofold: Operation Barrel Roll, air strikes from outside Laos; and air control specialists, who...
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  • also by Arabs against Jewish targets. The barrel bombs had multiple designs, including oil barrels rolled on attached truck tires, to unguided improvised...
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