Operation Millpond, 1961
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Name (Hebrew)
מבצע מילפונד, 1961
Name (Latin)
Operation Millpond, 1961
Name (Arabic)
عملية ميلبوند، 1961
Other forms of name
Millpond, Operation, 1961
See Also From tracing topical name
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Campaigns Laos
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Q18639999
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sh2016000746
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Hofmann, George R., Jr. Operation Millpond, 2009:title page (Operation Millpond) preface (A little-known Marine Corps operation in Southeast Asia in 1961 began withthe March deployment of approximately 300 Marines to Udorn, Thailand.* There, fora period of nearly seven months, the Marine force provided support to a small groupof Air America pilots, air crews, and support personnel whose mission was to flyhelicopters and fixed-wing transport aircraft in Laos in support of pro-WesternLaotian government forces. These Laotian government forces were fighting thePathet Lao, an indigenous but externally supported Communist guerrilla insurgentgroup that was attempting to take over the country. The insurgency had beengrowing since the end of the French Indochina war seven years previous.) p. 7 (12 March 1961, Marine Air Base Squadron-16 (MABS-16), located at Marine Corps Air Facility (MCAF), Futema, Okinawa, ordered to move a reinforced air base squadron to Udorn, Thailand, deployment named Operation Millpond) p. 9 (MABS-16 was to provide total aircraft maintenance and airfield services, and training, and other support, to Air America, Inc.)
Wikipedia description:
Operation Millpond, which operated from 13 March 1961 through August 1961, was an American covert operation designed to introduce air power into the Laotian Civil War. A force of 16 B26s, 16 Sikorsky H-34s, and other materiel were hastily shipped in from Okinawa and held ready to operate from the Kingdom of Thailand. After this hasty preparation for bombing in Laos, the debacle at the Bay of Pigs invasion resulted in the cancellation of Millpond. The B-26s were returned to Okinawa. However, the precedent had been set for covert Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored air operations in Laos.
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