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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |