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Operation Farm Gate, the Glossary

Farm Gate was the code name for an American air force mission operating in Vietnam before the overt US entry into the Vietnam War.^[1]

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1962 in Vietnam
1963 in Vietnam
1964 in Vietnam
Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1961
Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1962
Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1963
Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1964
History of Bình Định province
History of Sóc Trăng province
Military equipment of the Vietnam War
Military operations of the Vietnam War

Air force

An air force in the broadest sense is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare.

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Aircrew

Aircrew, also called flight crew, are personnel who operate an aircraft while in flight.

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Bien Hoa Air Base (Vietnamese: Sân bay Biên Hòa) is a Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) military airfield located in South-Central southern Vietnam about from Ho Chi Minh City, across the Dong Nai river in the northern ward of Tân Phong, and within the city of Biên Hòa within Đồng Nai Province.

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China Burma India theater

China Burma India Theater (CBI) was the United States military designation during World War II for the China and Southeast Asian or India–Burma (IBT) theaters.

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CIA activities in Indonesia

This is a list of activities carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Indonesia.

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Civil Air Transport

Civil Air Transport (CAT) was a Nationalist Chinese airline, later owned by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that supported United States covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia.

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Civilian Irregular Defense Group program

The Civilian Irregular Defense Group (CIDG, pronounced) was a military program developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Vietnam War, which was intended to develop South Vietnamese irregular military units from indigenous ethnic-minority populations.

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Cockpit

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft.

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Code name

A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person.

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Counterinsurgency

Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".

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Da Nang Air Base

Da Nang Air Base (Căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng) (1930s–1975) (also known as Da Nang Airfield, Tourane Airfield or Tourane Air Base) was a French Air Force and later Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) facility located in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam.

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Douglas A-1 Skyraider

The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly designated AD before the 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations) is an American single-seat attack aircraft in service from 1946 to the early 1980s, which served during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

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Douglas A-26 Invader

The Douglas A-26 Invader (designated B-26 between 1948 and 1965) is an American twin-engined light bomber and ground attack aircraft.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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Eglin Air Force Base

Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base in the western Florida Panhandle, located about southwest of Valparaiso in Okaloosa County.

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Enlisted rank

An enlisted rank (also known as an enlisted grade or enlisted rate) is, in some armed services, any rank below that of a commissioned officer.

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Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Helio Courier

The Helio Courier is a cantilever high-wing light STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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Lộc Ninh (township)

Lộc Ninh is a township and the capital of Lộc Ninh district, Bình Phước province in the Southeast region of Vietnam.

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North American T-28 Trojan

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a radial-engine military trainer aircraft manufactured by North American Aviation and used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.

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Pleiku Air Base

Pleiku Air Base is a former air force base in Vietnam.

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Quy Nhon

Quy Nhon (Quy Nhơn) is a coastal city in Bình Định province in central Vietnam.

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Robert McNamara

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.

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Rollen Henry Anthis

Major General Rollen Henry Anthis (December 4, 1915 – August 19, 1995) was an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) who served as commanding general of the Seventeenth Air Force, Air Force Logistics Command, Headquarters Command and the 2d Air Division.

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Soc Trang Airfield

Sóc Trăng Airfield was a French colonial, Imperial Japanese Army, United States Marine Corps (USMC), United States Army (US ARMY) and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) base located in Sóc Trăng in southern Vietnam.

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South Vietnam

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Việt Nam Cộng hòa; VNCH, République du Viêt Nam), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 division of Vietnam.

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South Vietnam Air Force

The South Vietnam Air Force, officially the Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF; Không lực Việt Nam Cộng hòa, KLVNCH; Force aérienne vietnamienne, FAVN) (sometimes referred to as the Vietnam Air Force or VNAF), was the aerial branch of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1955 to 1975.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Farm_Gate

Also known as 4400th CCTS, 4400th Combat Crew Training Squadron, Farm Gate (military operation).

Operation Farm Gate, the Glossary

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1961 in Vietnam

1962 in Vietnam

1963 in Vietnam

1964 in Vietnam

Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1961

Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1962

Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1963

Battles and operations of the Vietnam War in 1964

History of Bình Định province

History of Sóc Trăng province

Military equipment of the Vietnam War

Military operations of the Vietnam War

References