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By the time the only intelligence implying the lack of prisoners at Son Tay was received (the coded message in a pack of cigarettes which listed POW camps and the number of POWs in each—with no mention of Son Tay), prompting the Defense Intelligence Agency to do an intensive overnight re-analysis of all of its data, it was the day before the ...
- 21 November 1970
- Failure-No POWs to rescue at site
Tay Son movement (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that greatly altered the 18th century Vietnamese politi-cal and social landscape.
Sep 27, 2021 · Lam Son 719 was organized to stop the flow of men and supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos. The job of the 101st Airborne’s helicopter force, numbering over 600 machines, was to support the South Vietnamese ARVN forces operating in Laos.
Conceived and applied by military leader Nguyen Hue under whom the Tây Sơn forces engaged into a series of combat operations and skillfully defeated experienced and trained, regular troops, of Cambodia, Siam, Laos, the Chinese Qing empire and the domestic feudal armies of the Trịnh Lords, Nguyễn Lords and the imperial Lê dynasty.
The Tây So’n uprising (1771–1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This groundb...
Oct 2, 2016 · The mission, which began in the waning hours of Nov. 20, 1970, involved three teams of commandos assaulting the Son Tay prison, a short distance from the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
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Jul 25, 2022 · In InterAgency Paper No. 18W: The Son Tay Raid author Kenneth Segelhorst shows how with ground forces led Army Special Forces Colonel Arthur “Bull” Simons and overall mission commander Air Force Brig. Gen. LeRoy Manor, the operation known as the Son Tay Raid is a masterful demonstration of surprise, concentration, audacity, and tempo.
