Vietnam War timeline
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Operation Apache Snow Begins
Operation Apache Snow was a military operation of the Vietnam War in the A Shau Valley. The A Shau Valley was an important corridor for moving... Read more
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Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh Breaks My Lai Massacre and Cover-Up to an Outraged American Public
The first reports claimed that "128 Viet Cong and 22 civilians" were killed in the village during a "fierce fire fight". General William C.... Read more
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Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent-State massacre, occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and... Read more
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Operation Tailwind
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos by a company-sized element of U.S. Army Special Forces and Montagnard commando... Read more
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Operation Ivory Coast, Also Known as the Son Tay Raid
Operation Ivory Coast was a military operation conducted in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War by United States Special Operations Forces. On... Read more
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Battle of Snuol Begins
The Battle of Snuol was a major battle of the Vietnam War, conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam as part of Operation Toàn Thắng TT02.... Read more
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Operation Dewey Canyon II
Any offensive planning by the U.S. was, however, limited by the passage on 29 December 1970 of the Cooper-Church Amendment, which prohibited U.S.... Read more
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Operation Lam Son 719 Begins
The operation was conceived in doubt and assailed by skepticism, preceded in confusion. Read more
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2nd Lieutenant William L. Calley Becomes Sole Conviction in My Lai Massacre
On November 17, 1970, the United States Army charged 14 officers, including Major General Samuel W. Koster, the Americal Division's commanding... Read more
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Battle of Long Khanh
The Battle of Long Khanh was fought during the Vietnam War on 6–7 June 1971 between the elements of 1st Australian Task Force and the Viet Cong and... Read more
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment is ratified
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted in response to... Read more
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Red River Delta Flood of 1971
A severe flood of the Red River in North Vietnam kills an estimated 100,000 people on this day in 1971. This remarkable flood was one of the... Read more
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First Battle of Quang Tri Begins
The First Battle of Quảng Trị resulted in the first major victory for the North Vietnamese Army during the Nguyen Hue Offensive of 1972. The... Read more
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Easter Offensive, Officially Known as the Nguyen Hue Offensive, Begins
The Easter Offensive, officially, the Nguyen Hue Offensive and also (Chiến dịch Xuân hè 1972 in Vietnamese) was a military campaign conducted by... Read more
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Battle of Loc Ninh
The Battle of Loc Ninh was a major battle fought during the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive and lasted from 4–7 April 1972. Loc Ninh was a small... Read more
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Battle of An Loc
The initial wave of the offensive was followed on 5 April by a PAVN advance out of Cambodia into Binh Long Province, northeast of Saigon. Its... Read more
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Battle of Kontum
The objective PAVN forces during the third phase of the Nguyen Hue Offensive was to seize the cities of Kontum and Pleiku, thereby overrunning the... Read more
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Operation Linebacker
Operation Linebacker was the title of a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the... Read more
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Thanh Hoa Bridge is Destroyed by A-7 Corsair Bombings
The Thanh Hoa Bridge, spanning the Song Ma river, is situated 3 miles (4.8 km) north east of Thanh Hóa, the capital of Thanh Hoa Province in... Read more
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Top-Secret Navy SEAL POW Rescue Mission, Operation Thunderbird, is Called Off After Failing to Succeed
Operation Thunderhead was a highly classified combat mission conducted by U.S. Navy SEAL Team One and Underwater Demolition Team (UDT)-11 in 1972.... Read more
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Second Battle of Quang Tri Begins
The Second Battle of Quang Tri (Vietnamese: Thành cổ Quảng Trị) began on June 28 and lasted 81 days until September 16, 1972, when the Army of the... Read more
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Operation Linebacker II
Operation Linebacker II was a U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial bombardment campaign, conducted against targets in North... Read more
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United States Negotiates Release of POW's from North Vietnam through Operation Homecoming
Operation Homecoming was a series of diplomatic negotiations that in January 1973 made possible the return of 591 American prisoners of war held by... Read more
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Signing of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam as Part of the Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973, intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam Conflict, ended direct U.S. military involvement... Read more
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First "Hanoi Taxi" Flight to Retrieve American POW's through Operation Homecoming
Hanoi Taxi is a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter strategic airlift aircraft (serial number 66-0177) that was in service with the United States Air Force... Read more