The raid on Ban Naden of 9 January 1967 was a successful rescue of prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. The raid was improvised after local Central...

in the jungle, he was still struggling to flee when rescued by the Ban Naden raid of 5 January 1967. He returned to work for Air America until they departed...

9 January In the Raid on Ban Naden a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-led team raided a Pathet Lao prisoner of war camp in Ban Naden in northern Laos...

like mail delivery vastly improved after the raid. Ban Naden raid Footnotes Gargus was radar navigator on one of the aircraft and a mission planner. The...

The Battle of Ban Pa Dong was fought between 31 January and 6 June 1961 in Ban Pa Dong, the Kingdom of Laos. Troops from the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)...

led by Burmese militia, carrying 16 tons of opium crossed into Laos to Ban Khwan, where they were attacked by rival drug smugglers from the Chinese...

three-day eastward march to occupy Ban Namo. There they held up for a month, awaiting action from Groupement Tactique 2. On 2 December, they were reinforced...

Vatthana Prime Minister: Souvanna Phouma 1 January - 1967 Laotian parliamentary election 9 January - Ban Naden raid 29 July-1 August - 1967 Opium War...

The Battle of Ban Houei Sane took place during the Vietnam War, beginning on the night of 23 January 1968, when the 24th Regiment of the People's Army...

during its duties. When Lieutenant Colonel Simons later organized the Raid on Son Tay, he would call upon men who served with him in Laos, such as Richard...

worked in civilian clothing. First Indochina War International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos Laotian Civil War (also known as the Secret War) Operation...

early in 1941 by the Vichy French colonial authorities. Intended to be used on internal security operations to bolster the local sections of the mainly Vietnamese...

Operation Triangle on the Plain of Jars in Military Region 2. The transformation of Mu Ban Samaki into the Wapi Project was based on explicitly linking...

December, grounding aviation. Campaign Z began with a PAVN drive down the Ban Ban Valley. The strike force consisted of the 335th Independent Regiment, mechanized...

recently captured Salavan as a jumpoff point for occupying Tha Theng and Ban Phong. Key to the plan was a prearranged daily allotment of supportive tactical...

1972) was a Laotian military offensive aimed at capturing the villages of Ban Ngik and Laongam as bases for incursions onto the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The...

assault took the town of Paksong on the plateau on 6 December 1972 and held it until a ceasefire took effect at midday on 22 February 1973. A People's Army...

Service and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. There were also air raids on Philippines and Australia, as well as the cities in Burma and Malaysia...

unsuccessfully assaulted Ban Napheng, three kilometers north of Khong Sedone. On 19 June, two battalions of GM 32 took Ban Napheng, then quickly moved...

Choc (ADC) militia were stationed in two villages near Route 46, Ban Houei Lao and Ban Moung. During Spring 1971, Pathet Lao (PL) troops associated with...

Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) in certain areas. Communist bases on the Plain of Jars, down to Ban Ban, and east along Route 7 to the North Vietnamese border were...

thrust was fruitless. The Tchepone column stalled on Route 9 only 13 kilometers from the logistics center on 31 October. Between 1 and 10 November, the PAVN...

in American interests to combat the communist insurrectionists in Laos. Banned by treaty from stationing an overt Military Assistance Advisory Group in...

no reaction for a few days, if ever." The bombing began on the night of 18 March with a raid by 60 B-52 Stratofortress bombers, based at Andersen Air...

It also raided, skirmishing 110 times, killing 121 communist soldiers, and sowing 1,500 mines along North Vietnamese lines of communication. On 20 March...

agreement had been breached in 1966 by fleeting Royal Lao Air Force (RLAF) raids against the Sihanouk Trail. MACV-SOG also sent patrols from South Vietnam...

for covert Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored air operations in Laos. On 23 May 1950, the United States signed the Pentalateral Agreement committing...

January 1967: Ban Naden raid, in MR 3 29 July – 1 August 1967: 1967 Opium War, on Burmese border of MR 1 23 January 1968: Battle of Ban Houei Sane, in...

forward to Ban Pa Dong on 1 February to join the two under-strength formations in the southern contingent, GMs 22 and 24, to be followed by GM 21. On 3 February...

Army unit. His emphasis on raiding the Ho Chi Minh Trail instead of flying close air support for the infantry was criticized. On 21 April, General Ouane...