Projects, Programs
and 
Operations 

 

Code Name

Command

Unit

Time Frame

Comments

Proud Deep

Combined

 

Dec 71

Largest series of Air strikes against NVN since the bombing halt in 68

Quail

 

OSS

1945

"Mercy Mission". U.S. team parachuting into Hanoi to protect POWs from Jap guards at end of WW II

Quick Speak

USAF (A/C)

5 ACS

Aug 65

16 C-47 and U-10s equipped with loudspeakers and leaflet chutes.  Directed by JUSPAO

Rain Dance

USAF

 

17 Mar 69

First US B-52 bombing campaign against PDJ

Ranch Hand

USAF

 

 

UC-123 defoliation and herbicide operations

Rapid Fire

SF

 

 

 

Red Haze

Army

 

May 1965

OV-1C Mohawks equipped with infared equip, escorted by armed OV-1As for Steel Tiger recce

Rivet Clamp

USAF

 

Jul 66 - Jun 67

Project for UW C-130E Stray Goose Modifications

Rock Kick

USAF

 

1966

B-52 strikes on targets in the Mu Gia Pass AO on the border of NVN and Laos

Rolling Thunder

Combined

 

2 Mar 65 -  Oct 68

Sustained incremental bombing campaign of NVN, auth LBJ 12 Feb 65 "a measured and limited air action"

Salem House

SF

 

1Dec 68

Cambodia cross border ops, renamed from Daniel Boone

Sea Dragon

Navy

 

 Mar 65

Prepare Battle Ship New Jersey for deployment to VN

Sea Dragon

Navy

 

 

Naval gunfire ops against NVN

Senior Book

USAF

4080 SRW

Oct 64

U-2 program with DC-130 launched AMQ-34 Firebee I drones

Shed Light

USAF

 

 

Overall pgm to improve night interdiction/attack capability

Shinning Brass

SF

 

 

Project to insert roadwatch teams along the HCM trail in Laos

Shock

USAF

 

 

Embassy/USAF pgm to attack targets provided by roadwatch teams in Laos

SIGMA

SF

 

 

 Cross-border ops in  Cambodia

Silver Bayonet

Army

 

Nov 65

Ia Drang Valley Campaign.  It was found that the Army required TAC Airlift assets for large ops

Singer

Navy

 

 

Code Word for missile warning equipment.  "Singer Low" - Alert,  "Singer High"  -  Missile in the Air

Sixteen Buck

Air Commando

4 ACS

Nov 65

Initial Air Commando Squadron deployment to RVN

SLAM

Combined

 

7 Oct 66

Select, Locate, Annihilate, Monitor - special expanded Shinning Brass pgm using US led ARVN ground teams and AF tactical and B-52 a/c

Southpaw

MACV

 

1967

Plan to recruit and train 3000 Kha tribesmen for large (Div) scale ground ops against HCM trail

Spike Teams

SF

 

3 Oct 66

New code name for Shinning Brass teams

Spotlight  Report

USAF

 

 

Igloo White sensor data recieved by TFA

Steel Tiger

USAF / Combined

 

3 Apr 65

Air Interdiction pgm in southern Laso

Steve Canyon

USAF

 

5 May 66

Raven program, attached to Water Pump, Project 404, after Oct 70, became part of Palace Dog program

Stony Beach

DIA

 

 

DIA MIA office in Bangkok

STRATA

SF

 

 

Short term recon and target acquisition teams, Laos

Stray Goose

USAF

 

1966

Specially modified UC-130E, later MC-130E and C-130(I) for use with Special Operations Forces and missions

Tally Ho

USAF

 

20 Jul 66

Air interdiction pgm above DMZ using Tiger Hound a/c and personnel

Task Force Alpha

USAF

 

 

Org that built and operated the Igloo White infiltration and surveillance center at NKP

Thot Not

SF

 

8 Apr 71

Cambodian cross border ops, renamed from Salem House

Tiger Cub

USAF

 

1 Mar 65

4252 Strategic Wing Det at Don Muang

Tiger Hound

USAF

 

5 Dec 65

Interdiction pgm in southeastern most Laos

Trojan Horse

UFAF

 

 

SAC recon

Tropic Moon

USAF

 

1966

B-57G night intruder project, also installed on 2 A-1Es

United Effort

USAF

55 SRW

 

ERB-47, w/ Ryan AMQ-34 Firebee1drones, TSN

Water Pump

USAF

Det 6, 1st Air Commando Wing

1 Apr 64

AF training Det at Udorn to train Lao AF and Thai AF personnel.

White Star

SF

 

May 01, 1965

Special Forces Mobil Training Teams in Laos

Yankee Station

Navy

 

 

CTG 77, Navy AL located off NVN, in the Gulf of Tonkin: 16N/110E

Yankee Team

USAF

 

May 1964-Jun 65

Armed escort for Recon flights over Laos. AF lst mission under JCS directive, "during the daylight hours of  19 May.

Young Tiger

USAF

 

1 Mar 65

4252 Strategic Wg took over aerial refueling from Foreign Legion Tanker Force

 

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