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    Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. bombing campaign at the beginning of the Vietnam War. In response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident when the destroyers...
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    to be made even after Pierce-Arrow ceased operation in 1938. Seagrave continued to deliver fire apparatus with the "Pierce-Arrow" V-12 until 1970. Throughout...
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    Navy strikes against North Vietnam on 5 August 1964 as part of Operation Pierce Arrow in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, striking against fuel...
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    Gulf of Tonkin incident (category Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1964)
    4 incident, Johnson had decided on retaliatory attacks (dubbed "Operation Pierce Arrow"). That same day he used the "hot line" to Moscow, and assured the...
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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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    and was selected for pilot training. On August 5, 1964, during Operation Pierce Arrow, LTJG. Alvarez's Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was shot down in the immediate...
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    Vietnamese patrol boats, Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes (Operation Pierce Arrow) launched against the north. This did not, however, satisfy the...
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    Logical NOR (redirect from Pierce's arrow)
    Historical background […] Logical operator NOR named Peirce arrow and also known as Webb-operation. (xiii+1+123+7 pages) (NB. The back cover of this book erroneously...
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    his efforts to pass the resolution, President Johnson had ordered Operation Pierce Arrow, retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases. The Gulf...
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    sortie of the Vietnam War on 5 August 1964, flying bomber escort in Operation Pierce Arrow. Navy fighter pilots were unused to flying with a non-pilot RIO...
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  • rockets and 250-pound bombs. Prepared as they had not been during Operation Pierce Arrow, North Vietnamese antiaircraft gunners threw up a curtain of fire...
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    North Vietnamese torpedo boats. On 5 August both carriers launched Operation Pierce Arrow, a series of air strikes on a North Vietnamese oil facility and...
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  • April 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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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (category Special operations units and formations of the United States)
    second reported attack led President Lyndon B. Johnson to launch Operation Pierce Arrow, an aerial attack against North Vietnamese targets on 5 August....
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    off North Vietnam the following day, and together they launched Operation Pierce Arrow, sixty-four sorties against the bases from which the attacks had...
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    President Johnson ordered the launching of retaliatory air strikes (Operation Pierce Arrow) on the bases of the North Vietnamese torpedo boats and announced...
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    Ticonderoga and USS Constellation later launched the retaliatory Operation Pierce Arrow attacks on North Vietnamese targets.: 73  He was then ordered to...
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    USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy on 2 August 1964, VA-146 participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnamese targets which...
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  • gunboat, while the other two leave the battle. August 5 Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb...
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    Ticonderoga. On August 5, 1964, he served as a flight leader for Operation Pierce Arrow, the first retaliatory strike against North Vietnam following the...
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    the United States. In retaliation for the Tonkin Gulf Incident, Operation Pierce Arrow consisted of 64 strike sorties of aircraft from the aircraft carriers...
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    Gulf of Tonkin incident. 5 August 1964: VA-144 participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, air strikes against North Vietnamese torpedo boats, their bases...
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  • Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation...
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    War. His U.S. Navy jet was damaged by anti-aircraft fire during Operation Pierce Arrow, which was conducted three days after the Gulf of Tonkin incident...
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  • James Chaney, murdered in June, are found. August 5 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb...
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    destroyers on Desoto Patrol. 5 August 1964: VA-56 A-4s participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, retaliatory strikes against the North Vietnamese. Along with other...
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    United States bombed North Vietnam for the first time as it launched Operation Pierce Arrow from the aircraft carriers USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) and USS Constellation (CV-64)...
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    Lieutenant (jg)s R. E. Moore and P. A. Carter, participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, retaliatory strikes against North Vietnam. Along with other aircraft...
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    coast of North Vietnam. 5 August 1964: VA-55's A-4s participated in Operation Pierce Arrow, retaliatory strikes against the North Vietnamese. Along with other...
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  • allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1965) "Vietnam Archive Operations Database". The Vietnam Center and Archive. "Operation report information"...
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