מבצע מילפונד, 1961

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שם ראשי (עברית)

מבצע מילפונד, 1961

שם ראשי (לועזית)

Operation Millpond, 1961

שם ראשי (ערבית)

عملية ميلبوند، 1961

רמיזות

Millpond, Operation, 1961

נושא איתו מזוהה

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Campaigns Laos

MARC

Wikidata: Q18639999

Library of congress: sh2016000746

מקורות מידע

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.)

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