Operation Lam Son 719
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Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos. The campaign was carried out by the
U.S. Army AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters over Laos
T-55 tank
M41 Walker Bulldog, the most numerous tank of the ARVN
Fire Support Base Lolo falls to NVA forces
Cambodian campaign
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The Cambodian campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil W
Operation Lam Son 719
…in Laos would bolster the morale and confidence of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), which was already high in the wake of the successful Cambodian Campaign of 1970. It would also serve as proof that South Vietnamese forces could defend their nation in the face of the continuing Vietnamization withdrawal…
Meeting in Beijing in 1965: Mao Zedong (l), Prince Sihanouk (c), and Liu Shaoqi (r)
A B-52D on a bombing mission over Southeast Asia
On 30 April 1970, President Nixon announced the attack into Cambodia. In a televised address to the nation, he justified it as a necessary response to North Vietnamese aggression.
ARVN and US Army attacks beyond Cambodian borders to seek out enemy troops within 29 April and 1 July 1970