PROJECTS,
PROGRAMS
AND
OPERATIONS
|
Code
Name |
Command |
Unit |
Time
Frame |
Comments |
|
4802
Joint Liasion Det |
CIA
Combined |
|
1963
(?) |
CIA
"logistics" office at Udorn |
|
Able
Mable |
USAF |
|
Nov
1961 |
RF-101
Rceon Task force operating over selected portions of Laos and SVN |
|
Alamo |
Combined |
|
1975 |
Plan
for the last ditch defense of Tan Son Nhut for the evacuation of Saigon.
Not implemented |
|
Alfred |
CIA/DIA
Combined |
|
|
Code
Name for member to ICC Staff passing POW information to the US |
|
Alpha
Team |
USAF |
|
|
TFA
personnel who analyzed Igloo White data and requested air strikes thru
on-site ABCCC |
|
Aquatone |
|
|
|
Early
name for the U-2 project |
|
Arc
Light |
USAF |
320
Bomb Wg |
18
Jun 65 |
B-52project
with first a/c coming from Guam. 1st mission, 2 a/c lost to mid-air off
Philipines. 1st Laos mission 12 Dec 65 |
| Banjo/Whiplash | USAF | May '65 | F-4s at Ubon RTAFB (Banjo) and F-105s at Korat (Whiplash) placed on alert for rapid response to requests from the air attache at Vientiane for interdiction and support of Royal Lao troops. | |
|
Banish
Beach |
USAF |
|
|
Proposal
to attack HCM trail with C-130 a/c loaded with fire bombs. Never
executed |
|
USAF
Navy |
|
14
Dec. 64 |
Air
Campaign and ops area. Northeastern
Laos to NVN border |
|
|
Beef
Broth |
USAF |
|
1965 |
Buildup
of TAC units in the US to replace units deployed to SEA |
|
SOG |
|
|
Operation
to print and distribute counterfeit NVN currency |
|
|
Big
Eagle |
USAF |
Det
9, lst ACW |
8
Jun 66 - 13 Jan
67 |
8
A-26As join 606 Air Commando Sq at NKP for Combat Evaluation |
| Big Eye/ College Eye Task Force | USAF | 552 AEW&C Wg | 1965 - early 70's | Airborne Early Warning & Control, and Intelligence |
|
Big
Shoot |
USAF
(A/C) |
|
|
AC-47
Development Project |
|
Birdcadge |
Allied |
|
August
1945 |
`Operations
to inform Siam and other areas of the Jap surrender.
Over 33,000,000 leaflets were dropped on 90 POW Camps and 150
Japanese military installations. |
|
Black
Crow |
USAF |
|
|
Detection
device employed by gunships over HCM trail to detect truck ignitions |
|
Black
Spot |
USAF |
|
|
NC-123
equipped with forward-looking radar, low-light-level TV, Fwd-looking
infrared, laser ranger, advanced nav sys, weapons release computer and
dispensers for BLUs |
|
Black
Watch |
USAF |
|
29
May - 21 Jul 62 |
RB-26
low and medium altitude night recon missions over SVN and Laos |
|
Blackbeard |
SF |
|
|
|
| Blind Bat | USAF | 1966 - | Program using C-130s as flareships and FACs over Laos | |
|
Blue
Springs |
USAF |
|
1964 |
SAC
recon ops over Laos, part of OPLAN-34A |
|
Blue
Tree |
USAF |
|
1965 |
RF-101
Recce Ops over NVN |
|
USAF |
8
TFWg |
2
Jan 67 |
Mig
sweep resulting in 7 MIG kills |
|
|
Boostershot |
CIA |
|
1959 |
Team
of CIA Officers sent to Laos to help get out the vote (correctly) in the
Lao parlimentary elections. "The
elections turned out to be a disaster" for the CIA |
|
Box
Top |
USAF |
55
SRW |
1964 |
ERB-47H
, TSN |
| Brave Bull | USAF | 6091 Recon Sq | Feb '63 | Follow-on program to Hilo-Hattie using C-97 aircraft equipped with DFR, IR and long range cameras. |
|
Briar
Patch |
USAF/
Combined |
|
1968 |
POW
compound near Ap Lo NVN. Name for planned raid to rescue POWs at that
camp. Never carried out |
|
Bright
Light |
Combined |
|
|
Joint
program to locate and rescue POWs and to rescue endangered teams and
downed aircrews |
|
Brotherhood |
US |
|
1954 |
US
sponsored program to encourage "free Asian" nations, mainly
the Philipines to send medical teams to rural SVN |
| Bugle Note | USAF | 1968 | A tactic for providing increased B-52 support during Khe Sanh that used cyclic launches (first 3 bombers every 90 minutes, later 6 bombers every 180 minutes), with variations to prevent prdicted arrival time. The bombers flew to a predesignated preinitial point and were guided to the targets by Combat Skyspot radar. The concept proved to be so efficient that it was expanded to cover all areas hit by the B-52's | |
|
USAF |
2nd
Bomb Wg |
May
72 |
Deployment
of B-52s to support Linebacker II |
|
|
Burning
Arrow |
US/ARVN |
|
2
Jan 63 |
ARVN
operation supported by US flown H-21 helicopters |
| Candy Machine | USAF | USAF F-102 interceptor air defense teams in Vietnam | ||
|
Carolina
Moon |
USAF |
|
|
Plan
to use C-130 a/c to bomb bridges in NVN. |
|
Combined |
|
|
Program
to encourage VC/NVA defectors. |
|
