There were still some issues about naming operations when Operation Market-Garden was launched in September of 1944. 1972 in the Vietnam War saw foreign involvement in South Vietnam slowly declining. Even the B-52 C.O., Maj Charlies Beckworth was wounded in a C&C helicopter. Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major offensive by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.It took place from January 22 through March 18, 1969 and involved a sweep of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA)-dominated A Shau Valley by the 9th Marine Regiment reinforced by elements of the 3rd Marine Regiment.. It involved an aerial campaign that dropped 120,000 tons of bombs on North Vietnam, forcing it to end its offensive. Operation Birmingham was a military operation of the Vietnam War in War Zone C, north of Saigon conducted by the U.S. 1st Infantry Division and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 5th Division from 24 April to 17 May 1966. Operation Michael – How Germany Tried To Win WWI. The operation's goal, which really didn't have the appeal of a tea party, was an effort by combined Allied and ground assault troops to capture bridges over Dutch waterways in order to begin a rapid advance toward Germany. However, President Johnson orders the name changed to the less aggressive sounding 'White Wing' over concern for U.S. public opinion. Operation MASHER/WHITE WING, conducted by the 1st Air Cavalry Division in early 1966, was the first large-scale operation to cross corps boundaries, and it involved a tie-in with U.S. Marine Corps forces as well as allies of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Korea. Many, many helicopter missions were flown during the next several days as the recondo teams ran into tough VC units on their own terrain.

Project DELTA would later record this as one of their worst disasters of the war. January 28-March 6 - Operation Masher marks the beginning of large-scale U.S. search-and-destroy operations against Viet Cong and NVA troop encampments. 21st March 2017 at 6:17pm. March 21, 1918 was a hell of a day to be a British soldier - particularly one in General Sir Hubert Gough's Fifth Army. Several Special Forces soldiers were killed on several teams.
During the 42 day operation in South Vietnam's Bon Son Plain near the coast, troopers of the U.S. 1st …

On March 21, 99 years ago, the German Army achieved the 'impossible'.