Operation Flaming Dart is a US aerial operation during the Vietnam War (February 1965 ), undertaken in response to the NFOYU’s guerrilla actions against US troops in South Vietnam .
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The operation was carried out in two stages:
- “Flaming Dart I” - carried out on February 7 - 8 in response to attacks on the Camp Holloway helicopter base and headquarters of the South Vietnamese II Corps in Pleiku that night. The strike was inflicted by aircraft of the US Navy and South Vietnamese Air Force.
- “Flaming Dart II” - held on February 11 in response to the explosion of a hotel in Qui None, where American military advisers lived.
During two raids, US and South Vietnamese aircraft attacked military facilities in southern North Vietnam (in the Donghoy area and north of the DMZ ) related to the training of soldiers of the North Vietnamese army before being sent to South Vietnam.
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Operation Flaming Spear was the second case of bombing by North American aircraft from the start of the war. During the first operation (" Piercing Arrow ") in August 1964, only one air attack was carried out.
The date of the first strike of Operation Flaming Spear (February 7, 1965) is sometimes called the start date for the regular bombing of North Vietnam, which is not true. The strikes were solely retaliation [1] . The regular bombing campaign ( Operation Thunder Clap ) began only on March 2 of the same year.
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- ↑ Davidson F. War in Vietnam (1946-1975). - M .: Izografus, Eksmo, 2002 .-- S. 336.
Literature
- Clodfelter, Micheal. Vietnam in Military Statistics: A History of the Indochina Wars, 1772-1991 . McFarland & Company, 1995. ISBN 0786400277 , 9780786400270.
- Frankum, Ronald Bruce. Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1975 , Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. ISBN 0742543021 , 9780742543027.