Air Power And Its Role In The Battles Of Khe Sanh And Dien Bien Phu
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Air Power And Its Role In The Battles Of Khe Sanh And Dien Bien Phu
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Author : Air Command and Staff College
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Air Power And Its Role In The Battles Of Khe Sanh And Dien Bien Phu written by Air Command and Staff College and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with History categories.
The battles of Dienbienphu and Khe Sanh have many similarities. Both were fought in Vietnam on similar terrain. Both were at the end of long supply lines in isolated jungle areas. Both involved a protracted siege of the defending forces whose success or failure was dependent on their ability to resupply by air and provide close air support against the attacking enemy formations. Yet one force, the French were defeated by a seemingly lightly armed guerrilla force, while the American Marines, opposed by the regular army forces of the North Vietnamese Army, were successful. Furthermore, the level of casualties on both sides were astonishing. At Dienbienphu, the French suffered over 12,350 total casualties as well as having 6,500 taken prisoner at the end of the battle, many of which were never heard from again. The Americans on the other hand suffered comparatively light casualties. 354 battle deaths and 2024 wounded were suffered during the fourteen months of combat operations beginning in April 1967 and ending in June 1968. The primary reason for the American success and the French failure during these two battles was their ability to conduct aerial resupply of the garrison and the hilltop outposts at Khe Sanh and the French inability to provide the necessary materials for their garrison. In addition to aerial resupply, was the American's ability to provide close air support for their positions during the siege as well as fly interdiction missions along the NVA supply lines to slow down or reduce the amount of supplies and troops available for their assaults.
Air Power And The Fight For Khe Sanh
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Author : Bernard C. Nalty
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1973
Air Power And The Fight For Khe Sanh written by Bernard C. Nalty and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Khe Sanh, Battle of, 1968 categories.
The Battle For Khe Sanh
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Author : Moyers S. Shore
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-25
The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Moyers S. Shore and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-25 with Fiction categories.
The Battle for Khe Sanh is a book by Moyers S. Shore. During the Vietnam War a battle was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Vietnam, and this work presents equipment and tactics of US forces and how they fought VC forces.
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh Illustrated Edition
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Author : Lt.-Col Shawn Callahan USMC
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh Illustrated Edition written by Lt.-Col Shawn Callahan USMC and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
Includes 7 maps, 3 tables, and more than 80 photo illustrations. In the 77 days from 20 Jan. to 18 March of 1968, two divisions of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) surrounded a regiment of U.S. Marines on a mountain plateau in the northwest corner of South Vietnam known as Khe Sanh. The episode was no accident; it was in fact a carefully orchestrated meeting in which both sides got what they wanted. The North Vietnamese succeeded in surrounding the Marines in a situation in many ways similar to Dien Bien Phu, and may have been seeking similar tactical, operational, and strategic results. General William C. Westmoreland, the commander of the joint U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV), meanwhile, sought to lure the NVA into the unpopulated terrain around the 26th Marines in order to wage a battle of annihilation with air power. In this respect Khe Sanh has been lauded as a great victory of air power, a military instrument of dubious suitability to much of the Vietnam conflict. The facts support the assessment that air power was the decisive element at Khe Sanh, delivering more than 96 percent of the ordnance used against the NVA. Most histories of the battle, however, do not delve much deeper than this. Comprehensive histories like John Prados and Ray Stubbe’s Valley of Decision, Robert Pisor’s End of the Line, and Eric Hammel’s Siege in the Clouds provide excellent accounts of the battle, supported by detailed analyses of its strategic and operational background but tend to focus on the ground battle and treat the application of air power in general terms. They do not, however, make significant distinction between the contributions of the two primary air combat elements in this air-land battle: the 7th Air Force and the 1st Marine Air Wing. An analysis of their respective contributions to the campaign reveals that they each made very different contributions that reflected very different approaches to the application of air power.
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh
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Author : Lieutenant Shawn Callahan
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-11
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Lieutenant Shawn Callahan and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with History categories.
In the 77 days from 20 January to 18 March of 1968, two divisions of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) surrounded a regiment of U.S. Marines on a mountain plateau in the northwest corner of South Vietnam known as Khe sanh. The episode was no accident; it was in fact a carefully orchestrated meeting in which both sides got what they wanted. The north Vietnamese succeeded in surrounding the Marines in a situation in many ways similar to Dien Bien Phu, and may have been seeking similar tactical, operational, and strategic results. General William C. Westmoreland, the commander of the joint U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV), meanwhile, sought to lure the NVA into the unpopulated terrain around the 26th Marines in order to wage a battle of annihilation with air power. In this respect Khe Sanh has been lauded as a great victory of air power, a military instrument of dubious suitability to much of the Vietnam conflict. The facts support the assessment that air power was the decisive element at Khe Sanh, delivering more than 96 percent of the ordnance used against the NVA. This work focuses mainly on fixed-wing close air support, or the support provided by jet and propeller-driven conventional aircraft, to the general exclusion of rotary-wing aircraft, also known as helicopters. There are several reasons for this, none of which are meant to belittle the contributions or heroism of the Marine, Army, and Air Force helicopter pilots who fought in the hills around Khe Sanh. First, until the arrival of the AH-1G Cobra in April 1969, there was no helicopter designed for dedicated close air support of Marines in Vietnam. The primary gunship during the battle of Khe Sanh was the UH-1E outfitted with machine guns and rocket launchers for the escort of unarmed helicopters. These helicopters were sometimes used for the direct support of ground troops with suppressive fires and were frequently used as forward air controllers, spotting and marking targets for fixed-wing aircraft with heavier ordnance. These roles are appropriately discussed alongside the contributions of the fixed-wing aircraft, but as a general rule, analysis remains focused on the heavier attack aircraft.
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh
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Author : Shawn P. Callahan
language : en
Publisher: Marine Corps Association
Release Date : 2009
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Shawn P. Callahan and has been published by Marine Corps Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
Chapters include the Hill Battles of 1967, The Seige of 1968, Operation Pegasus and the Relief of Khe Sanh, the Deep Air Battle and the B-52, Radar Controlled Tactical Air Support, Close Air Support, and Conclusions. Mixed within the text are black and white photographs, charts, and figures. An appendix with a glossary and acronym of terms and extensive bibliography support this occasional paper work. These "Occasional Papers" are chosen for intrinsic worth, must reflect structured research, present a contribution to historical knowledge not readily available in published sources, and reflect original content on the part of the author, compiler, or editor.
Air Power And The Fight For Khe Sanh
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Author : Office of Air Force History
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-02-10
Air Power And The Fight For Khe Sanh written by Office of Air Force History and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-10 with History categories.
The 1968 fight for Khe Sanh pitted some 6,000 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Rangers against an enemy force roughly three times as large. For more than 70 days North Vietnamese troops maintained pressure on Khe Sanh's defenders, who had dug in around the base's airstrip. The original purpose for deploying the Marines and South Vietnamese into the northwest corner of South Vietnam was to block Communist troop movements along Highway 9 toward Quang Tri City and the heavily populated coastal areas. When U.S. intelligence detected large enemy forces assembling near Khe Sanh, the senior American commander in Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, ordered the Marines to hold the base. General Westmoreland suspected that North Vietnam's Defense Minister, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, might be tempted to mount a major attack against the base in hopes of achieving "a climactic victory, such as he had done in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu." If Giap did order such an attack, General Westmoreland believed it would provide U.S. air power "a singular opportunity" to destroy a massed enemy force in a relatively uninhabited, isolated region of South Vietnam. In late January 1968 General Westmoreland advised the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C., of his decision to defend Khe Sanh. The Chiefs backed him unanimously. During the siege that followed, U.S. strike aircraft rained nearly 100,000 tons of munitions down upon the North Vietnamese while other planes primarily U.S. Air Force transports-flew in essential supplies of food, ammunition, and other necessities to Khe Sanh's defenders. The Leathernecks also used their own aircraft to provision Marine outposts which denied the enemy the high ground overlooking the base. Other military elements participating in the battle included U.S. Army artillerymen dug in east of Khe Sanh, who fired deadly concentrations against the besieging forces. Marine howitzers and mortars added to the heavy U.S. fire, while Army engineers joined Navy Seabees in helping prepare airstrips which supported the allied defense effort. Finally, the relief of Khe Sanh though spearheaded by Army troops-also involved American Marines and soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh
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Author : Shawn P. Callahan
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2009
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Shawn P. Callahan and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Close air support categories.
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Author : Shawn P. Callahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-28
Close Air Support And The Battle For Khe Sanh written by Shawn P. Callahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-28 with categories.
In the 77 days from 20 January to 18 March of 1968, two divisions of the north Vietnamese Army (nVA) surrounded a regiment of u.s. Marines on a mountain plateau in the northwest corner of south Vietnam known as Khe sanh. The episode was no accident; it was in fact a carefully orchestrated meeting in which both sides got what they wanted. The north Vietnamese succeeded in surrounding the Marines in a situation in many ways similar to dien Bien phu, and may have been seeking similar tactical, operational, and strategic results. General William C. Westmoreland, the commander of the joint u.s. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (CoMusMACV), meanwhile, sought to lure the nVA into the unpopulated terrain around the 26th Marines in order to wage a battle of annihilation with air power. In thisrespect Khe sanh has been lauded as a great victory of air power, a military instrument of dubious suitability to much of the Vietnam conflict.
The U S Army In Vietnam
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on armed services
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The U S Army In Vietnam written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on armed services and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with United States categories.