The Battle of Operation Crimson Tide The C-130 were three hours late due to the Air Forces new policy of centralize control of all air assets to maximize the efficiency of flights, central planning office had detoured the to drop off cargo in route. With the push back and flight time the actual reaching the objective was five hours past the projected time. Then things started to get worse the weather turned bad, Clouds dropped, the minimal resistance turned into an overwhelming force, intersecting heavy machine-gun fire, followed by mortars and intense small arms fire. 1000 NVA Soldiers that were resting in a field. 3rd Platoon helicopters landed in the wrong area now separated, by a canal blocking them from rejoining the Company. Before they could correct this a Huey was shot down killing an American. The separated 3rd Platoon needing help. One of the two Americans in that platoon were dead. They had to call Air support to keep the enemy back, when they call the planes for support, the Air Force had made some changes again to the mission plans without informing anyone. Instead of A-1 Skyraiders a propeller prop plane the Air Force sent F-100s Super Sabers, a Supersonic fighter that had been pressed into the attack role which it had not been designed for. A bad combination for a …show more content…
With all the chaos the sun began to go down they could not get picked up until the following morning. By the next morning the communists had abandoned the area and the Capt. Jaks found what was left of his 3rd platoon, Two Green Berets who commanded the unit had been killed, and of their forty Nungs 11 were dead, the rest were seriously wounded, or missing, he lost a whole platoon. The original source of the information accompanied the raiding force, pointed out landmarks in the area, and where booby traps were located the next day. They were in the correct area for the rescue
Despite the meticulous planning for OPLAN 90-2, there were a number of external factors that disrupted overall timeline and sequence of events. The plan was to assault and seize the Omar Torrijos International Airport after the last commercial passenger flight was scheduled to arrive at 2300. However, the flights arrival was delayed by two hours. The plan was to give enough time for the passengers to get their luggage and clear the airport prior to the assault. Weather conditions also became an issue for the departing forces. Soldiers traveling by convoy from Fort Ord to Travis Air Force Base had to combat a thick fog, coupled with Christmas traffic making the 150-mile trip very difficult. Upon arrival to the base, not all of the aircraft were configured the same, which was not surprising because most of the aircraft were pulled from different bases all over the nation of short notice. Equipment had to be repacked and the aircraft had to be reconfigured along with amending the flight manifests to fit all of the troops and equipment. Due to inclement weather at Fort Bragg, the Paratroopers arrival was also postponed. These delays were not taken into account during the planning period, which ultimately delayed departure.
It was mid-afternoon on October 3, 1993. There were approximately 160 men eagerly awaiting the signal to proceed. Matt Eversmann sat waiting in Super Six Seven, a Black Hawk helicopter. He noticed that things were being done differently from the other setups, which had been false. This time they were packing more ammo and the commander had come out to see them off.
The fight on Hamburger Hill took place during Operation Apache Snow, the second part of a three-phased campaign intended to annihilate North Vietnamese Army (NVA) bases in the treacherous A Shau Valley. Five infantry battalions were leading the attack under Major General Melvin Zais, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division. Three units were American (the 1/506th, 2/501st, and 3/187th Infantry) and two came from the 1st Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Division (the 2/1st and 4/1st ARVN). Colonel Joseph Conmy, Commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, controlled and lead the main effort of the attack. His plan called for each of the five battalions to "air assault" into the valley by helicopter on 10 May 1969 and to search its assigned sector for enemy troops and...
The battle was over. The NVA forces had suffered hundreds of casualties and were no longer capable of a fight. U.S. forces had suffered 79 killed and 121 injured and had been reinforced that would guarantee their safety the safety of all the companies as they medivacd all the wounded and dead, and resupplied.
In the aftermath of a comparatively minor misfortune, all parties concerned seem to be eager to direct the blame to someone or something else. It seems so easy to pin down one specific mistake that caused everything else to go wrong in an everyday situation. However, war is a vastly different story. War is ambiguous, an enormous and intangible event, and it cannot simply be blamed for the resulting deaths for which it is indirectly responsible. Tim O’Brien’s story, “In the Field,” illustrates whom the soldiers turn to with the massive burden of responsibility for a tragedy. The horrible circumstances of war transform all involved and tinge them with an absurd feeling of personal responsibility as they struggle to cope.
What Happened in Nam? The soldiers' tale: bearing witness to modern war. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: A. Lane, in the year 1997. 177. - 222. - 177. - 222. Print.
U.S. forces experienced terrible attacks on their positions that consisted of things such as mortar fire and rocket propelled grenade fire. The source of the attacks came from areas all around them. Insurgents attacked from moving vehicles, civilian houses and mosques. The U.S. forces were attacked intensely with small arms, direct fire as well as grenades. The fighting got so intense that an AC-130 had to be called upon in order to subdue the insurgents.... ...
On 21 November 1970, a joint Army/ Air force task force attempted to rescue POW’s from the Son Tay prison camp 23 miles west of Hanoi. The task force, comprised of 56 Special Forces soldiers and 13 Aircraft plus crews was commanded by BG Leroy Manor, LTC Leroy Snydor, and COL Arthur “Bull” Simons as deputy commander and ground force commander. Although no POW’s were rescued, the mission is considered a success due to the cooperation of the involved agencies and branches in the planning and execution of the raid.
On May 5, 1945, the 6th Bomb Squadron 29th Bomb Group 314th Wing had just completed a bombing run on Tachairai air depot and was returning to our base in Guam. The following crew members were onboard: William R. Fredericks, Co-Pilot; Howard T. Shingledecker, Bombardier; Charles Kearns, Navigator; Dale Plambeck, Radar Navigator; Teddy Poncezki, Engineer; John Colehower, Gunner; Cpl. Johnson, Gunner; Cpl. Oeinck, Gunner; Cpl. Czarnecki, Gunner; Robert Williams, Radio Operator; and myself as pilot.
The book summarizes the struggles that Bravo Company faced from the start even before deployment. The unit was initially sent to JRTC at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and made many tactical errors during their rotation. 1st platoon had many individuals captured from the start, and the leadership automatically decided that Captain Goodwin would be incompetent for the following deployment while LTC Kunk would be difficult to work with for the upcoming year. Once they came out from JRTC, Bravo Company and Charlie Company were both given the toughest missions. Bravo Company was assigned to the most dangerous AO in the so-called triangle o...
The most heavily used planes was the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. The planes were the main ways of dominating the attack. Original plans were to sink battleships rather than carriers, Yamamoto believed that by shattering their battle fleet the American morale would be crushed. The attack was divided into two waves, the first wave (led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida- source L) of the attack included 40 torpedo planes which broke down into 16. The second wave was intended to compromise 171 aircraft. Relatively small bombs carried by dive bombers were not sufficient. The first wave had a stronger impact of damage caused to the heavy ships. The second wave aircraft was finalize the destruction of American air power on
It began to emerge the differences in tactics. The question was whether to continue so far the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Forces Europe, General Eisenhower’s tactics attacking on a broad front, or due to problems of supply to take just one mighty blow. In that period Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery developed a new operation plan, which would include the use of 1st Airborne Army (Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton), actually 1st Airborne Corps (Lieutenant General Frederick Browning). The Corps comprised of 82nd US Airborne Division (Brigadier General James M. Gavin), 101st US Airborne Division (Major General Maxwell D. Taylor), and 1st British Airborne Division (Major General Robert “Roy” E. Urquhart) supported with, under his command, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade (Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski). These units should be dropped along the roa...
Given Germany’s military situation in 1941, was Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union based on sound strategic judgment?
Cochran, announced to the 87 officers and 436 enlisted men of the newly established special operations unit- the 1st Air Commando Group, "Nothing you've ever done, nothing you're ever going to do, counts now. Only the next few hours. Tonight you are going to find your souls."Operation Thursday, designed with the goals of route Japanese forces from a planned invasion of India, and reestablishing the logistical train from India to China, was on. And one of the soon-to-be Air Force's first special operations units was fonned, a force committed to meeting the challenge of unconventional warfare
...ar, facing disease and hardship or when a soldier throws himself on a grenade to save his comrades. The bad is evident in families torn apart by drug abuse and also in every shop clerk shot and killed during a holdup. This war’s outcome really depends on the individual and the choices they make; every decision will take them down one path or the other, often having greater consequences than they could ever imagine.