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    Operation Crimp (8–14 January 1966), also known as the Battle of the Ho Bo Woods, was a joint US-Australian military operation during the Vietnam War,...
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    (wire crimp) or its insulation (insulation crimp). C crimp D crimp F crimp (a.k.a. B crimp) O crimp W crimp Overlap/OVL crimp Oval (confined) crimp Four-Mandrel...
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    tunnel system. Among the most important were Operation Crimp and Operation Cedar Falls. Operation Crimp began on January 7, 1966, with B-52 bombers dropping...
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    a combined U.S. and Australian operation against the Củ Chi tunnels in Bình Dương Province, known as Operation Crimp. The "Diehards" of the U.S. Army's...
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    Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those...
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    1966 they launched Operation Marauder, the first U.S. military operation in the Plain of Reeds. They participated in Operation Crimp in 1966, a failed...
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    War Zone D and the Iron Triangle. In January 1966 1 RAR took part in Operation Crimp, a search and destroy mission in the Ho Bo Woods, north of Saigon,...
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    undertook several operations in Biên Hòa Province and subsequently fought significant actions, including Gang Toi, Operation Crimp and Suoi Bong Trang...
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    Jonathan O. Seaman. In 1966, the division took part in Operation Marauder, Operation Crimp II and Operation Rolling Stone, all in the early part of the year...
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    actor and race car driver; in Lewiston, Maine Operation Crimp, the joint U.S. and Australian operation in the Vietnam War, ended six days after its January...
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  • S-Australian-New Zealand victory Operation Crimp – January 8–14, 1966 - U.S-Australian-New Zealand victory Operation Van Buren — January 15-February 25...
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    Gulf War's Operation Desert Shield. Malaysian soldiers with L1A1 rifles in their headquarters, near the airport in Mogadishu during Operation Restore Hope...
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    Operation Crimp (8–16 January 1966) Operation Entrée in general support of 1/503 US Infantry's operations, Battle of Suoi Bong Trang during Operation...
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    Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover...
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  • inspected whilst on parade, c. 1956. Australian soldiers in Vietnam during Operation Crimp in January 1966. Australians arrive at Tan Son Nhut Airport in Saigon...
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    killing two persons and injuring 12. 8–14 January Operation Crimp was a joint US-Australian military operation in the Ho Bo Woods, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north...
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  • 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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    Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other western countries (including...
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    Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam...
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    Operation Menu was a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) tactical bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 to 26...
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  • Vietcong (VC) headquarters complex in the Ho Bo Woods as a part of Operation Crimp; which the Americans hailed as the first strategic intelligence victory...
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  • attempts to lure large enemy units into combat in Operation Crimp (8–14 January 1966) and Operation Mastiff (21–27 February 1966), Colonel William Brodbeck...
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  • Detonator crimping pliers, cap crimping pliers or detonator crimping tool is a common tool when working with explosives. The construction is very similar...
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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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  • Operation Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S...
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    Operation Masher, also known as Operation White Wing, (24 January—6 March 1966) was the largest search and destroy mission that had been carried out in...
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    Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh...
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  • Jamieson, killing him and another elderly local, former Green Island mayor Vic Crimp. The next victim was James Dickson, who was looking for his dog. Eva Helen...
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    Battle of Gang Toi (category Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1965)
    subsequently employed on Operation New Life in November and December, and later Operation Crimp in the Ho Bo Woods in January 1966. Operation Hump was Brumfield's...
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  • subsequently fought a number of significant actions, including Gang Toi, Operation Crimp and Suoi Bong Trang. In March 1966, the Australian government announced...
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