Operation Barrel Roll

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Operation Barrel Roll

Remarks: US air campaign conducted to support the Royal Laotian Government during the Vietnam War by interdicting enemy supplies moving through Laos and by providing air support for Laotian ground forces fighting the North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao

[edit] Timeline

• December 12, 1964 Operation Barrel Roll begins, initially consisting of just two bombing sorties per week with not more than four aircraft each^[1].

[edit] Sources

• Wikipedia entry for Operation Barrel Roll

• Barrel Roll (Air Force Magazine)

• Barrel Roll, 1968-73

[edit] References

1. ↑ wikipedia:Operation Barrel Roll