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Proud Deep (Dec 1971)

Operation Proud Deep was a five-day limited air campaign commenced on 26 December 1971 against specified North Vietnamese targets including fuel and supply depots, airfields, SAM sites and truck parks below the 20th parallel. Ostensibly the offensive was mounted in response to the build up of North Vietnamese SAM sites and MiG activity in the southern provinces of the North. The campaign was to consist of no more than about 1,000 bombing sorties but it got off to a bad start due to bad weather caused by the northeast monsoon. Due to the low cloud, most aircraft had to drop their bombs on instruments with correspondingly poor results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
      • Chris Hobson
      • Dave Lovelady
    • About the Book
    • About the Data
    • About this Site
  • Sidelines
    • Background to the Wars in Southeast Asia
    • 1961 to 1964: Civil War in Laos/Early Operations in South Vietnam
    • 1965: Escalation of the War/Start of Rolling Thunder
    • 1966: Rolling Thunder Gets into its Stride
    • 1967: Rolling Thunder - The Peak Year
    • 1968: Tet, Khe Sanh, and the End of Rolling Thunder
    • 1969: Interdiction on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
    • 1970: The Year of Withdrawal
    • 1971: A Much Reduced Presence
    • 1972: The Spring Invasion/Linebacker Campaigns
    • 1973: Winding Up the War
  • Statistics
    • Loss Statistics
    • Losses Due to Air Base Attacks
    • Losses Due to Accidents on the Ground or Aboard Ship
    • US Air Force Loss Statistics
    • US Navy Loss Statistics
    • US Marine Corps Loss Statistics
  • Details
    • Order of Battle
    • Index of Names
    • Abbreviations and Glossary of Operations, Code Names, and Projects
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