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Aero Contractors (United States)
Aero Contractors Ltd., a private charter company based in Smithfield, North Carolina, is said by some to provide discreet air transport services for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Air America
Air America may refer to.
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Air America (book)
Air America is a 1978 non-fiction book by Christopher Robbins, a journalist investigating CIA drug trafficking and front companies for The Observer.
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Air America (film)
Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Air Asia (Taiwan)
Air Asia Company Limited is a provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services headquartered in Taiwan.
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Alfred W. McCoy
Alfred William McCoy (born June 8, 1945) is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who specializes in Southeast Asia.
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Allegations of CIA drug trafficking
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been accused of involvement in drug trafficking.
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Allen Lawrence Pope
Allen Lawrence Pope (born 1928 or 1929) is a retired US military and paramilitary aviator.
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Anne Garrels
Anne Garrels (born July 2, 1951) was a long-time foreign correspondent for National Public Radio in the United States.
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Anthony Poshepny
Anthony Alexander Poshepny (September 18, 1924 – June 27, 2003), known as Tony Poe, was a CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division.
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Antonov An-2
The Antonov An-2 (Russian nickname: "Annushka" or "Annie"; "kukuruznik" - corn crop duster; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 22, NATO reporting name Colt) is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed and manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau beginning in 1946.
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Auto Defense Choc
The Auto Defense de Choc (ADC) was a militia training program for the Royal Lao Armed Forces.
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Battle of Ban Pa Dong
The Battle of Ban Pa Dong was fought between 31 January and 6 June 1961 in Ban Pa Dong, the Kingdom of Laos.
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Battle of Lak Sao
The Battle of Lak Sao, fought between November 1963 and January 1964, was a major engagement of the Laotian Civil War.
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Battle of Lima Site 85
The Battle of Lima Site 85, also called Battle of Phou Pha Thi, was fought as part of a military campaign waged during the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War by the North Vietnamese army and the Pathet Lao, against airmen of the United States Air Force 1st Combat Evaluation Group, elements of the Royal Lao Army, Royal Thai Border Patrol Police, and the Central Intelligence Agency-led Hmong Clandestine Army.
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Battle of Luang Namtha
The Battle of Luang Namtha, fought between January 1962 and May 1962, was an important engagement of the Laotian Civil War.
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Battle of Nam Bac
The Battle of Nam Bac was one of the major engagements of the Laotian Civil War.
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Battles of Nakhang
The Battles of Nakhang (16 February 1966–28 February 1969) were fought between Royalist forces and North Vietnamese invaders for control of the northern base of Nakhang, Laos.
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Beechcraft Model 18
The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.
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Boun Oum Airways
Boun Oum Airways or BOA, was a Laotian Airline owned by Prince Boun Oum.
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Brian Shul
Brian Shul (born 1948), is a Vietnam War-era attack pilot and a retired major in the United States Air Force (USAF).
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Campaign Toan Thang
Campaign Toan Thang (Campaign Total Victory) was the first communist wet season offensive of the Laotian Civil War.
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Campaign Z
Campaign Z (17 December 1971 – 30 January 1972) was a military offensive by the People's Army of Vietnam; it was a combined arms thrust designed to defeat the last Royal Lao Army troops defending the Kingdom of Laos.
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Castle Bank & Trust (Bahamas)
Castle Bank & Trust was a Bahamian bank that was involved in tax evasion, as well as covertly funneling funds for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
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Charles Larimore Jones
Charles Larimore Jones (14 May 1932 – 23 November 2006),.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins (19 November 1946 – 24 December 2012) was a British writer and journalist.
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CIA activities in Guatemala
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a rich history of intervention over many decades in Guatemala, a country in Central America that the US government has generally viewed as "its backyard." Guatemala is bordered by the North Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Honduras (also known as the Caribbean Sea).
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CIA activities in Laos
CIA activities in Laos started in the 1950s.
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CIA Memorial Wall
The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
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Civil Air Transport
Civil Air Transport (CAT) was a Nationalist Chinese airline, later owned by the CIA, that supported United States covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia.
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Civil aviation in China
In November 2012 as a result of the rapidly expanding civil aviation there were 182 commercial airports in China.
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Claire Lee Chennault
Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1890 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II.
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Clandestine human intelligence
Clandestine human intelligence is intelligence collected from human sources using clandestine espionage methods.
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Clandestine HUMINT operational techniques
The Clandestine HUMINT page deals with the functions of that discipline, including espionage and active counterintelligence.
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Commando Raiders
The Commando Raiders or Commando Raider Teams (CRTs) were a Laotian elite paramilitary Special Operations and pathfinder force, which operated closely with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the final phase of the Laotian Civil War, from 1968 to 1973.
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Continental Air Services, Inc
Continental Air Services, Inc, better known as CASI, was a subsidiary airline of Continental Airlines set up to provide operations and airlift support in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
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Corporate Air Services HPF821
Corporate Air Services HPF821 was a transport aircraft delivering weapons via airdrop to the Nicaraguan Contras which was shot down over Nicaragua on 5 October 1986 by a surface-to-air missile.
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Curtiss C-46 Commando
The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a transport aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design.
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Da Nang Air Base
Da Nang Air Base (Căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng) (1930s–1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility.
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Daisy cutter (fuse)
A daisy cutter is a type of fuse designed to detonate an aerial bomb at or above ground level.
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David Duke
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist and white nationalist politician, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, convicted felon, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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De Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
The de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (designated by the United States military as the CV-2 and later C-7 Caribou) is a Canadian-designed and produced specialized cargo aircraft with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability.
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Deuane Sunnalath
Lieutenant (later Colonel) Deuane Sunnalath (1927–1978) led a schism within neutralist forces fighting in the Laotian Civil War.
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Dieter Dengler
Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator during the Vietnam War and later a private aircraft test pilot and commercial airline pilot.
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Directorate of National Coordination
The Directorate of National Coordination or DNC (French: Direction de Coordination Nationale – DCN) was the airborne-qualified paramilitary Security Agency and élite field force of the Royal Lao Police (French: Police Royale Laotiènne – PRL).
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Duane W. Martin
Duane Whitney Martin (January 2, 1940 – July 3, 1966) was an American Air Force officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
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Dummy corporation
A dummy corporation or dummy company is an entity created to serve as a front or cover for one or more companies.
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Edén Pastora
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez (born in Ciudad Darío January 22, 1937) is a Nicaraguan politician and former guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections.
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Embassy of the United States, Saigon
The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon after which the embassy closed permanently. In 1995, the U.S. and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam formally established relations and the embassy grounds and building were handed back to the United States. The former embassy was subsequently demolished in 1998 and is currently a park inside of the U.S. Consulate General's compound in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City.
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Eugene DeBruin
Eugene Henry DeBruin (April 1, 1933 – c. 1968) was a US Air Force staff sergeant, and a member of Air America serving in Laos during the Second Indochina War.
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Evergreen International Airlines
Evergreen International Airlines was a charter and cargo airline based in McMinnville, Oregon, United States.
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Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng) on 30 April 1975.
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Flying Tiger Line
Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major military charter operator during the Cold War era for both cargo and personnel (the latter with leased aircraft).
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Forces Armées Neutralistes
Forces Armées Neutralistes (Neutralist Armed Forces) was an armed political movement of the Laotian Civil War.
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Foreign interventions by the United States
The United States has been involved in a number of foreign interventions throughout its history.
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Forward air control during the Vietnam War
The forward air controller (FAC) played a significant part in the Vietnam War from the very start.
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Front organization
A front organization is any entity set up by and controlled by another organization, such as intelligence agencies, organized crime groups, banned organizations, religious or political groups, advocacy groups, or corporations.
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Gar Thorsrud
Garfield Thorsrud (February 20, 1928 - November 23, 2014) was a Montana pilot and smoke jumper who was initially contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency to fly aircraft for the Tibetan insertion operation, encrypted STBARNUM, in the early 1950s.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.
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Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor and film producer.
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Helio Courier
The Helio Courier is a cantilever high-wing light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949.
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Helio Twin Courier
The Helio Twin Courier is a twin-engined version of the Helio Courier, with very few examples being produced.
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History of United States drug prohibition
This is a history of drug prohibition in the United States.
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Hubert van Es
Hubert van Es (6 July 1941 – 15 May 2009) was a Dutch photographer and photojournalist who took the well-known photo on 29 April 1975, which shows South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon.
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Hughes OH-6 Cayuse
The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse (nicknamed "Loach", after the requirement acronym LOH — Light Observation Helicopter) is a single-engine light helicopter with a four-bladed main rotor used for personnel transport, escort and attack missions, and observation.
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Intermountain Aviation
Intermountain Airlines, also known as Intermountain Aviation and Intermountain Airways, was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) airline front company.
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James J. Stanford
Senior Master Sergeant James J. "Jim" Stanford (died 25 August 2012) instituted forward air control techniques for directing air strikes during the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War.
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James William Lair
James William Lair (often referred to as Bill Lair) (4 July 1924 – October 28, 2014) was an influential Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer from the Special Activities Division.
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Khmer Air Force
The Khmer Air Force (French: Armée de l'air khmère; AAK), commonly known by its americanized acronym KAF (or KhAF) was the air force component of the Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK), the official military of the Khmer Republic during the Cambodian Civil War between 1970 and 1975.
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Khmer Special Forces
The Khmer Special Forces, also designated 'Khmer SF' for short or Forces Speciales Khmères (FSK) in French, were the elite Special Operations unit of the Khmer National Armed Forces (commonly known by their French acronym, FANK) during the 1970-75 Cambodian Civil War.
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Kou Voravong
Kou Voravong (lao: ກຸ ວໍຣະວົງ) was a Laotian politician, born on December 6, 1914, in Savannakhet and murdered on September 18, 1954, in Vientiane, while he was Defense Minister.
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Laotian Civil War
The Laotian Civil War (1959–75) was fought between the Communist Pathet Lao (including many North Vietnamese of Lao ancestry) and the Royal Lao Government, with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers.
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Lars Olausson
Lars Oskar Olausson (born 20 May 1927) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Swedish Air Force, who has published an annual volume on the history of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter currently titled the Lockheed Hercules Production List 1954-2014, the thirtieth edition having been printed March 2012.
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Lee Lue
Major Lee Lue (1935 – 12 July 1969) was a Laotian Hmong fighter bomber pilot notable for flying more combat missions than any other pilot in the Kingdom of Laos.
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Lien Khuong Airport
Lien Khuong Airport (IATA: DLI, ICAO: VVDL) is the largest among 4 airports of Lâm Đồng Province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.
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Lima Site 36
Lima Site 36 (also known as LS-36) was an Air America and U.S. Air Force facility built in the village of Na Khang, near the Plain of Jars in Laos, during the Vietnam War.
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Lima Site 85
Lima Site 85 (LS-85 alphanumeric code of the phonetic 1st letter used to conceal this covert operation) was a clandestine, military installation in the Royal Kingdom of Laos guarded by the Hmong "Secret Army", the Central Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force used for Vietnam War covert operations against communist targets in ostensibly neutral Laos under attack by the Vietnam People's Army.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the Curtiss C-46 Commando
The Curtiss C-46 Commando was a transport aircraft originally derived from a commercial high-altitude airliner design.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1968
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 that occurred in 1968, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1969
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 that occurred in 1969, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1973
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 that have taken place in 1973, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1975
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 that have taken place in 1975, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2.
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List of accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed C-130 Hercules
More than 15 percent of the approximately 2,350 Lockheed C-130 Hercules production hulls have been lost, including 70 by the US Air Force and the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
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List of aircraft losses of the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, thousands of U.S. aircraft were lost to antiaircraft artillery (AAA), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and fighter interceptors (MiG)s.
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List of Boeing 727 operators
The list of Boeing 727 operators lists both former and current operators of the aircraft.
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List of Cajuns
This is a list of notable Cajuns, often from the Acadiana or Greater New Orleans regions of French Louisiana, though not limited in geographic origin.
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List of covert sites of the Laotian Civil War
Covert sites of the Laotian Civil War were clandestine U.S. military installations for conducting covert paramilitary and combat operations in the Kingdom of Laos.
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List of de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operators
The Twin Otter was and is used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world, and was produced in three main series (100, 200, 300) until 1988.
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List of defunct airlines of the United States
This is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.
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List of Douglas A-26 Invader operators
The List of Douglas A-26 Invader operators lists the nations, their air force units, and civilian companies that have operated the Douglas A-26 Invader (re-designated B-26 Invader after 1947).
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List of Douglas DC-4 operators
This is a list of operators of the Douglas DC-4, Douglas C-54, Canadair North Star and Douglas R5D.
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List of Douglas DC-6 operators
A great number of airlines and air forces from several countries included the Douglas DC-6 in their fleets at some point in time.
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List of helicopter airlines
This is a list of helicopter airlines.
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List of JAG characters
This is an overview of the regular and recurring characters of long-running series JAG.
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List of people who disappeared mysteriously
This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously and of people whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated.
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List of United States aerial victories of the Vietnam War
The following is a list of United States aerial victories of the Vietnam War.
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List of United States Marines
The following is a list of people who served in the United States Marine Corps and have gained fame through previous or subsequent endeavors, infamy, or successes.
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List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1961–65)
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965.
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).
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Marble Mountain Air Facility
Marble Mountain Air Facility (MMAF) (also known as Da Nang East Airfield and Marble Mountain Army Airfield) was an aviation facility used primarily by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.
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McNulty
McNulty (Mac an Ultaigh)—also spelled MacNulty, McAnulty, McEnulty and Nulty amongst other variations—is an Irish surname, meaning "son of the Ulsterman".
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Michael Jon Hand
Michael Jon Hand (born December 8, 1941, New York City) is a US ex-Green Beret known for co-founding the Nugan Hand Bank.
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Military Airlift Command
The Military Airlift Command (MAC) is an inactive United States Air Force major command (MAJCOM) that was headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
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Military history of Laos
The Military history of Laos has been dominated by struggles against stronger neighbours, primarily Thailand and Vietnam, from at least the 18th century.
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Military Region 5 Commandos
The Military Region 5 Commandos (French: Commandos de la Région Militaire 5), MR 5 Commandos or MR 5 Cdos for short, were an elite military unit and Special Operations force of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the final phase of the Laotian Civil War from 1969 to 1975.
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Military Regions of Laos
Beginning in 1955, the Kingdom of Laos was divided into five Military Regions (MR), roughly corresponding to the areas of the country's 13 provinces.
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Naha Airport
is a second class airport located west of the city hall in Naha, Okinawa.
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Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base
The Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base (NKP), formerly Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, is a Royal Thai Navy facility used for riverine patrols along the Mekong River.
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
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No. 79 Squadron RAAF
No. 79 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) flight training unit that has been formed on four occasions since 1943.
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Non-official cover
In espionage, agents under non-official cover (NOC) are operatives who assume covert roles in organizations without official ties to the government for which they work.
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North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958–1959.
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On Mark Marksman
The On Mark Marksman was an American high-speed civil executive aircraft converted from surplus Douglas A-26 Invader airframes by On Mark Engineering.
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Operation Barrel Roll
Operation Barrel Roll was a covert, Top Secret, U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division (later the Seventh Air Force) and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War.
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Operation Black Lion III
Operation Black Lion III (18 October 1972 – 22 February 1973) was one of the last Royal Lao Army offensives of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Black Lion V
Operation Black Lion V (21 November 1972–22 February 1973) was the final Royal Lao Government offensive of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Booster Shot
Operation Booster Shot was a rural aid program run by the United States in the Kingdom of Laos during March and April 1958.
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Operation Frequent Wind
Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam prior to the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese Army (PAVN) in the Fall of Saigon.
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Operation Hardnose
Operation Hardnose was a Central Intelligence Agency-run espionage operation spying upon the Ho Chi Minh trail that began during the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Junction City Jr.
Operation Junction City Jr. was a major Laotian offensive of the Vietnam War; initially aimed at temporary disruption of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, it was extended into an attempt to isolate the major North Vietnamese communist transshipment point at Tchepone from the units it was supposed to supply.
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Operation Left Jab
Operation Left Jab was the first military offensive launched against the Sihanouk Trail extension of the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Second Indochina War.
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Operation Millpond
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.
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Operation Momentum
Operation Momentum was a guerrilla training program during the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Phou Phiang II
Operation Phou Phiang II (6 August – 25 October 1972) was one of the final battles of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Phou Phiang III
Operation Phou Phiang III (18 January – March 1973) was the final offensive of the Laotian Civil War by the Royal Lao Army's L'Armée Clandestine.
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Operation Pincushion
Operation Pincushion was a covert training program for hill tribe recruits to become guerrilla soldiers during the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Pony Express
The Pony Express was the covert transportation of, and the provision of aerial support for, indigenous soldiers and material operating across the Laotian and North Vietnamese borders during the Vietnam War.
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Operation Raindance
Operation Raindance was a military operation of the Laotian Civil War, staged from 17 March to 7 April 1969.
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Operation Sayasila
Operation Sayasila (26 July 1971—31 October 1971) was a major offensive military operation of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Sourisak Montry VIII
Operation Sourisak Montry VIII (September 1971–22 June 1972) was a Thai military offensive against an encroaching Chinese Communist presence just north of the Mekong River.
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Operation Strength
Operation Strength (6 February – 17 March 1972) was a Royalist military offensive of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Strength II
Operation Strength II (6–31 March 1972) was a Royalist military offensive of the Laotian Civil War.
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Operation Triangle
Operation Triangle was a military operation of the Laotian Civil War staged from 19—29 July 1964.
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Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA publishes organizational charts of its agency.
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Pacific Corporation
The Pacific Corporation (originally Airdale Corporation), was a holding company that the Central Intelligence Agency used to control several aviation front companies.
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Palace Dog
Palace Dog was a United States Air Force covert operation to support the Royal Laotian Government in its military operations during the Laotian Civil War portion of the Vietnam War.
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Pathet Lao
The Pathet Lao (Lao: ປະເທດລາວ, "Lao Nation") was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.
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Phisit Intharathat
Phisit Intharathat (พิสิษฐ์ อินทรทัต) (name also sometimes transliterated as Pisidhi Indradat) is a Thai citizen who was retrieved during the only successful prisoner of war rescue of the Vietnam War.
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Phou Bia
Phou Bia (Lao: ພູເບັ້ຍ) is the highest mountain in Laos and is located in the Annamese Cordillera, at the southern limit of the Xiangkhoang Plateau in Xiangkhouang Province.
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Phou Khao Kham
Phou Khao Kham (Gold Mountain), (5 August – 25 September 1971) was a Royal Lao Government military offensive operation of the Laotian Civil War designed to clear Communist forces off Routes 13 and 7 north of the administrative capital of Vientiane.
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Pilatus PC-6 Porter
The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined STOL utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.
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Pinal Airpark
Pinal Airpark is a county-owned, public-use airport located northwest of the central business district of Marana, in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.
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Pop Buell
Edgar "Pop" Buell (1913-1980) was a humanitarian aid worker in Laos.
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Presidency of Gerald Ford
The presidency of Gerald Ford began on August 9, 1974, when Gerald Ford became President of the United States upon the resignation of Richard Nixon from office, and ended on January 20, 1977, a period of days.
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Programs Evaluation Office
The Programs Evaluation Office was a covert paramilitary mission to the Kingdom of Laos, established on 13 December 1955 by the United States Department of Defense.
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Project 404
Project 404 was the code name for a covert United States Air Force advisory mission to Laos during the later years of the Second Indochina War, which would eventually become known in the United States as the Vietnam War.
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Project Waterpump
Project Waterpump (alternately, Operation Waterpump, or simply Waterpump) was a secretive support operation by the U.S. Air Force to train and nurture into existence the Royal Lao Air Force (RLAF).
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Raid on Ban Naden
The raid on Ban Naden of 9 January 1967 was the only successful rescue of prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, although no American prisoners were freed from the camp.
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Raven Forward Air Controllers
The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known as The Ravens, were fighter pilots used for forward air control in a covert operation in conjunction with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States in Laos during America's Vietnam War.
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Rescue Dawn
Rescue Dawn is a 2006 American epic war drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on an adapted screenplay written from his 1997 documentary film Little Dieter Needs to Fly.
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Return of the Flying Tigers
Return of the Flying Tigers is the ninth story arc in the Franco-Belgian comic book series Buck Danny, published by Jean-Michel Charlier and Victor Hubinon.
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Richard Etchberger
Richard Loy Etchberger (March 5, 1933 – March 11, 1968) was a senior non-commissioned officer in the United States Air Force who posthumously received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Battle of Lima Site 85 in the Vietnam War.
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Richard J. Brenneke
Richard J. Brenneke (December 5 1941 - July 23 2015) is a US businessman who testified in 1988 that he had worked in Southeast Asia with the CIA's Air America, among other roles.
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Richard Secord
Major General Richard Vernon Secord, Retired (born July 6, 1932), is a United States Air Force officer with a notable career in covert operations.
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Royal Lao Air Force
The Royal Lao Air Force (French: Aviation Royale Laotiènne – AVRL), best known to the Americans by its English acronym RLAF, was the air force component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (FAR), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.
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Royal Lao Armed Forces
The Royal Lao Armed Forces (French: Forces armées du Royaume), best known by its French acronym FAR, were the official armed defense forces of the Kingdom of Laos, a state that existed from 1949 to 1975 in what is now the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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Royal Lao Army
The Royal Lao Army (French: Armée royale du Laos – ARL), also designated by its Americanized title RLA, was the Land Component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (FAR), the official military of the Kingdom of Laos during the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos and the Laotian Civil War between 1960 and 1975.
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Royal Lao Army Airborne
The Royal Lao Army Airborne was composed of the élite paratrooper battalions of the Royal Lao Army (RLA), the Land Component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the First Indochina War and the Laotian Civil War from 1948 to 1975.
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Royal Thai Army
The Royal Thai Army or RTA (กองทัพบกไทย) is the army of Thailand responsible for protecting its sovereignty and national interests.
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Sang Kittarath
General Sang Kittirath was a prominent military leader during the Laotian Civil War in the Kingdom of Laos.
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Sikorsky H-34
The Sikorsky H-34 (company designation S-58) is a piston-engined military helicopter originally designed by American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky as an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft for the United States Navy.
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South Vietnam Air Force
The South Vietnam Air Force (Vietnamese: Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa – KLVNCH), officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (sometimes Vietnam Air Force – VNAF) was the aerial branch of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975.
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Southern Air Transport
Southern Air Transport (SAT) (1947–1998), based in Miami, Florida, was a cargo airline best known as a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency (1960–1973) and for its role in the Iran-Contra affair in the mid-1980s.
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Special Activities Division
The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert operations.
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SPECOM
SPECOM was the English acronym for Special Commando or Commando Speciale in French, the elite military unit and Special Operations force of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the final phase of the Laotian Civil War from 1972 to 1975.
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St. Lucia Airways
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Tchepone Operation
The Tchepone Operation (19 October – 13 November 1970) was an interdiction campaign by the Royal Lao Armed Forces aimed at disrupting the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) supply line, the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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Tcho-Tcho
The Tcho-Tcho, or Tcho-Tcho people, are a fictional human people or human-like race in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Tepper Aviation
Tepper Aviation, Inc. is based at the Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview, Florida.
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The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a 1972 non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and the CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade.
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The Vinh wiretap
The Vinh wiretap was an American espionage operation of the Vietnam War.
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Torture Taxi
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights is a 2006 book by A. C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen documenting the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.
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U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield
U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield is a military airfield of the Royal Thai Navy approximately southeast of Bangkok in the Ban Chang District of Rayong Province near Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam.
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Udon Thani International Airport
Udon Thani International Airport (ท่าอากาศยานอุดรธานี) is an international airport near the city of Udon Thani (อุดรธานี also Udorn Thanee) in Udon Thani Province in the northeast region of Thailand.
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Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base
Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base (Udorn RTAFB) is a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) base, the home of 2nd Air Division/23rd Wing Air Combat Command.
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UMOPAR
The Unidad Móvil Policial para Áreas Rurales (UMOPAR) (Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas), a subsidiary of the Special Antinarcotics Force (Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico—FELCN) of the Bolivian National Police (Cuerpo de Policía Nacional) was created in 1987 and is a Bolivian anti-narcotics and counterinsurgency force which was founded by, and is funded, advised, equipped, and trained by the United States government as part of its "War on Drugs".
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United States Air Force Combat Control Team
United States Air Force Combat Control Teams, singular Combat Controller (CCT) (AFSC 1C2X1), are American special operations forces (specifically known as "special tactics operators") who specialize in all aspects of air-ground communication, including air traffic control, fire support (including fixed and rotary wing close air support), and command, control, and communications in covert, forward, or austere environments.
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United States involvement in regime change
United States involvement in regime change has entailed both overt and covert actions aimed at altering, replacing, or preserving foreign governments.
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Vang Pao
Vang Pao (Hmong: Vaj Pov; 8 December 1929 – 6 January 2011) was a major general in the Royal Lao Army.
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Vang Sue
Major Vang Sue (Su, Seu) (also transliterated as Vaj Xwm) (January 30, 1945 – October 18, 1972) was a Laotian Hmong fighter pilot.
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Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng (ວັງວຽງ) is a tourist-oriented town in Laos in Vientiane Province about four hours bus ride north of the capital.
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Vietnam People's Air Force
The Vietnam People's Air Force (Không quân Nhân dân Việt Nam) is the air force of Vietnam.
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Vietnam War in film
This article lists notable films related to the Vietnam War.
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War in Vietnam (1959–63)
The 1959 to 1963 phase of the Vietnam War started after the North Vietnamese had made a firm decision to commit to a military intervention in the guerrilla war in the South Vietnam, a buildup phase began, between the 1959 North Vietnamese decision and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to a major US escalation of its involvement.
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William H. Beale
William Henry Beale Jr. (October 25, 1920 – April 6, 1962) was a US military and paramilitary aviator.
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William M. Leary
William Matthew "Bill" Leary, Jr. (May 6, 1934 — February 24, 2006)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.
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Yankee Station
Yankee Station was a point in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam used by the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes in the Vietnam War.
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1198th Operational Evaluation and Training Squadron
The 1198th Operational Evaluation and Training Squadron was a unit at Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California from 1965 to 1972 which conducted the initial testing of Lockheed C-130 Hercules transports modified for special operations.
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1960 Laotian coups
The 1960 Laotian coups brought about a pivotal change of government in the Kingdom of Laos.
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1961 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1961.
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1968 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968.
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1969 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1969.
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1972 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1972.
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1973 Laotian coup
The 1973 Laotian coup was a final attempt to stave off a communist coalition government of the Kingdom of Laos.
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1975 in the Vietnam War
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War, sometimes called the Second Indochina War or the American War.
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2007 Laotian coup d'état conspiracy allegation
The alleged 2007 Laotian coup d'état plan was a conspiracy allegation by the United States Department of Justice that Lt. Col. Harrison Jack (Ret.) and former Royal Lao Army Major General Vang Pao, among others conspired in June 2007 to obtain large amounts of heavy weapons and ammunition in allegedly planning an attempt to overthrow the Communist government of Laos in violation of the Neutrality Act.
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22 Gia Long Street
22 Gia Long Street, now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street, is an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City, then called Saigon, that became an icon of the Fall of Saigon when chosen as an assembly point for Operation Frequent Wind in 1975.
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346th Tactical Airlift Squadron
The 346th Tactical Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force squadron that was last assigned to the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Republic of China, where it was inactivated in May 1971.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)
