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    Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was a limited-objective...
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    Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (category Special operations units and formations of the United States)
    involvement, Operation Steel Tiger, Operation Tiger Hound, the Tet Offensive, Operation Commando Hunt, the Cambodian Campaign, Operation Lam Son 719, and the...
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    Sanh area and reoccupying of KSCB as a forward supply base for Operation Lam Son 719. On 8 February 1971, the leading ARVN units marched along Route...
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    Hoàng Xuân Lãm was given responsibility for the I Corps Tactical Zone in 1967. He coordinated the South Vietnamese Operation Lam Sơn 719 offensive which...
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    Route 9 and headed for the PAVN logistical center at Tchepone. "Operation Lam Son 719", the long-sought assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail itself and the...
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    commander of the 1st Division. He commanded the division during Operation Lam Son 719 in early 1971 and was promoted to Major general.: 135–6  In an interview...
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  • urban square in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Lâm Sơn (disambiguation) Operation Lam Son II Operation Lam Son 719 This disambiguation page lists articles about...
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  • struck the rear of the 50,000 North Vietnamese troops combating Operation Lam Son 719 beginning on 16 February 1971. With 16 daily tactical air sorties...
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    areas in eastern Cambodia. The ill-conceived and poorly executed Operation Lam Son 719 against PAVN supply lines in eastern Laos showed the weaknesses...
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    Xépôn (category Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1971)
    of the Sepon River and the Banghiang River. It was the target of Operation Lam Son 719 in 1971, an attempt by the armed forces of South Vietnam and the...
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    was dropped north of Long Tieng, Laos during Campaign 139. During Operation Lam Son 719 in 1971 25 BLU-82 bombs were dropped on NVA and Pathet Lao forces...
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  • February 25 1971, while flying close-air support missions during Operation Lam Son 719 for South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces...
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  • Beak". In 1971, Trí was ordered north to take command of I Corps in Operation Lam Son 719, an incursion into Laos, which had gone astray. He was killed, aged...
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    mobile operations along the DMZ. In 1971, Khe Sanh was reactivated by the U.S. Army (Operation Dewey Canyon II) to support Operation Lam Son 719, the South...
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    Command, September 1999. Verier 1990, p. 35. "Lam Son 719". Nguyen, Duy Hinh (1979). Operation Lam Sơn 719. United States Army Center of Military History...
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    rather than competent officers to lead ARVN units. During the 1971 Operation Lam Sơn 719 and the communists' Easter Offensive, the I Corps in the north of...
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    South Vietnamese forces, supported by U.S. air power, launched Operation Lam Son 719, the long-awaited offensive to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail in southeastern...
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    Simon and Schuster. 2013. ISBN 9781626365285. A Raid Too Far: Operation Lam Son 719 and Vietnamization in Laos. Texas A&M University Press. 2014. ISBN 9781623491178...
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    and IV Corps commanders to be replaced immediately.: 308  Lãm commanded Operation Lam Son 719 which aimed at striking the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southeastern...
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    000 enemy soldiers. In 1971, elements of the division supported Operation Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese invasion of southern Laos, but only aviation...
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    Vietnamization program, the ARVN were tasked with Operation Lam Son 719 in February 1971, the first major ground operation to attack the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at the...
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    the 237th Medical Detachment, 61st Medical Battalion supporting Operation Lam Son 719 when it was hit by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) fire and crash-landed...
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    less aggressive. This combined with the South Vietnamese focus on Operation Lam Son 719, which had begun on 8 February but had bogged down, meant that the...
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  • the area. In 1971, elements of the division supported the ARVN Operation Lam Son 719, the invasion of southern Laos, but only aviation units actually...
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    outside the boundaries of South Vietnam, so the next major drive, Operation Lam Son 719, would have to be based on ARVN ground forces, U.S. air and artillery...
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  • People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) garrison on 8 February 1971, just as Operation Lam Son 719 was launched by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Overrun...
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    late July 1970. In early 1971 the squadron provided support for Operation Lam Son 719 the South Vietnamese offensive into Laos and was credited with destroying...
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  • Vietnam in 1965. Connolly took part in the first massive bombing campaign, Operation Rolling Thunder. He returned to Vietnam in 1969 for his second tour of...
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    Nang. Seventeen ARVN M41s were initially sent into Laos as part of Operation Lam Son 719 between February and March 1971, an abortive cross-border incursion...
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  • helicopter crewmen. Throughout February and into April 2/17th supported Operation Lam Son 719.: 5–6  On 1 April Troop B's aero-rifle platoon was inserted to recover...
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