Operation Flaming Dart, the Glossary
Operation Flaming Dart was a U.S. and South Vietnamese military operation, conducted in two parts, during the Vietnam War.[1]
Table of Contents
37 relations: Aircraft carrier, Attack on Camp Holloway, Đồng Hới, Central Highlands (Vietnam), Da Nang Air Base, Douglas A-1 Skyraider, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Kiến Giang River, List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin B-57 Canberra, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, North American F-100 Super Sabre, North Vietnam, Operation Farm Gate, Operation Pierce Arrow, Operation Rolling Thunder, People's Army of Vietnam, Robert H. Shumaker, Second VA-155 (U.S. Navy), Shantou-class gunboat, South Vietnam, South Vietnam Air Force, United States Air Force, VA-153 (U.S. Navy), VA-212 (U.S. Navy), VA-216 (U.S. Navy), VFA-154, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, Vought F-8 Crusader, 1965 Qui Nhơn hotel bombing, 325th Division (Vietnam).
- 1965 in Vietnam
- Aerial bombing operations and battles
- Aerial operations and battles of the Vietnam War
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Attack on Camp Holloway
The attack on Camp Holloway occurred during the early hours of February 7, 1965, in the early stages of the Vietnam War. Operation Flaming Dart and attack on Camp Holloway are 1965 in Vietnam and conflicts in 1965.
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Đồng Hới
Đồng Hới is the capital city of Quảng Bình Province in the north central coast of Vietnam.
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Central Highlands (Vietnam)
The Central Highlands (Cao nguyên Trung phần), South Central Highlands (Cao nguyên Nam Trung Bộ), Western Highlands (Tây Nguyên) or Midland Highlands (Cao nguyên Trung bộ) is a region located in the south central part of Vietnam.
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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-4 Skyhawk
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas.
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Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.
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Ho Chi Minh
italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.
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Kiến Giang River
The Kiến Giang River (Sông Kiến Giang) is a river in Lệ Thủy District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast, Vietnam.
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List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War
The bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War were the longest and heaviest aerial bombardment in history. Operation Flaming Dart and List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War are aerial bombing operations and battles.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Martin B-57 Canberra
The Martin B-57 Canberra is an American-built, twin-engined tactical bomber and reconnaissance aircraft that entered service with the United States Air Force (USAF) in 1953.
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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.
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Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
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North American F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.
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North Vietnam
North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa; chữ Nôm: 越南民主共和), was a socialist state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1945 to 1976, with formal sovereignty being fully recognized in 1954.
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Operation Farm Gate
Farm Gate was the code name for an American air force mission operating in Vietnam before the overt US entry into the Vietnam War.
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Operation Pierce Arrow
Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. bombing campaign at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Operation Flaming Dart and Operation Pierce Arrow are aerial operations and battles of the Vietnam War and Battles and operations of the Vietnam War.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. Operation Flaming Dart and Operation Rolling Thunder are aerial operations and battles of the Vietnam War.
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People's Army of Vietnam
The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), officially the Vietnam People's Army (VPA; of Vietnam), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (lit) or the People's Army (Quân đội Nhân dân), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wing of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).
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Robert H. Shumaker
Robert Harper Shumaker (born May 11, 1933) is a retired rear admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy.
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Second VA-155 (U.S. Navy)
Attack Squadron 155 or VA-155 was an 'Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy.
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Shantou-class gunboat
The Shantou-class gunboat was a Chinese-built gunboat of the People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy.
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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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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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VA-153 (U.S. Navy)
VA-153 was an Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy.
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VA-212 (U.S. Navy)
Attack Squadron 212 (VA-212), nicknamed the Rampant Raiders, was an aviation unit of the United States Navy.
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VA-216 (U.S. Navy)
VA-216, nicknamed the Black Diamonds, was an Attack Squadron of the US Navy.
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VFA-154
Strike Fighter Squadron 154 (VFA-154), also known as the "Black Knights", is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore.
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Viet Cong
The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Operation Flaming Dart and Vietnam War are 1965 in Vietnam.
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Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone
The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 22 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into the two military gathering areas, which was supposed to be sustained in the short term after the First Indochina War.
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Vought F-8 Crusader
The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought.
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1965 Qui Nhơn hotel bombing
The Viet Cuong Hotel in Qui Nhơn was bombed by the Viet Cong on the evening of 10 February 1965, during the Vietnam War. Operation Flaming Dart and 1965 Qui Nhơn hotel bombing are 1965 in Vietnam.
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325th Division (Vietnam)
The 325th Infantry Division is a division of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), first formed in March 1951 from independent units in Thừa Thiên, it is likely that it only became fully operational in mid-1952.
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See also
1965 in Vietnam
- 1965 Qui Nhơn hotel bombing
- 1965 in the Vietnam War
- Attack on Camp Holloway
- Battle of An Ninh
- Battle of Ba Gia
- Battle of Binh Gia
- Battle of Dương Liễu–Nhông Pass
- Battle of Gang Toi
- Battle of Ia Drang
- Battle of Sông Bé
- Battle of Đồng Xoài
- Cam Ne incident
- Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–1969
- List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1961–1965)
- List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1965)
- Operation Arc Light
- Operation Barrel Roll
- Operation Bushmaster II
- Operation Flaming Dart
- Operation Game Warden
- Operation Hump
- Operation Iron Hand
- Operation Market Time
- Operation Piranha
- Operation Pony Express
- Operation Ranch Hand
- Operation Starlite
- Operation Steel Tiger
- Operation Tiger Hound
- Pleiku Campaign
- Siege of Plei Me
- Vietnam War
- Vũng Rô Bay incident
Aerial bombing operations and battles
- 1925 Hama uprising
- 1994 Goražde air strikes
- 1995 Pale air strikes
- 1998 bombing of Iraq
- 1999 Russian bombing of Chechnya
- 2011 military intervention in Libya
- AI-assisted targeting in the Gaza Strip
- Airstrikes
- Apure clashes (2021–2022)
- Baku–Rostov highway bombing
- Battle of Nyala
- Black Friday (bombing campaign)
- Bombardment of Gao
- Bombing of Barcs
- Bombing of North Korea
- Bombing of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)
- Dersim massacre
- Gaza War (2008–2009)
- Kiwirok bombings
- List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War
- Massacre at 11th Parallel
- Operation Black Buck
- Operation Deliberate Force
- Operation Deny Flight
- Operation Flaming Dart
- Operation Freedom Deal
- Operation Hedge-hop
- Operation Northern Watch
- Operation Southern Focus
- Operation Southern Watch
- Russian–Syrian hospital bombing campaign
- Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
Aerial operations and battles of the Vietnam War
- Action of 23 August 1967
- Battle of Đồng Hới
- Combat Skyspot
- Ground-directed bombing
- Operation Arc Light
- Operation Babylift
- Operation Barrel Roll
- Operation Bolo
- Operation Commando Hunt
- Operation Flaming Dart
- Operation Homecoming
- Operation Igloo White
- Operation Linebacker
- Operation Linebacker II
- Operation Menu
- Operation Pierce Arrow
- Operation Proud Deep Alpha
- Operation Ranch Hand
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Operation Steel Tiger
- Thanh Hóa Bridge
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flaming_Dart
Also known as Operation Flaming Dart I, Operation Flaming Dart II.