Lima Sites place
also: the Lima site, the radar site, Phau Pha Tinh, Lima site airstrip
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“Because that was the whole purpose. They want us drugged and stupid. All right. So North Vietnamese dry season offensive of 1969 climaxed with the loss in late June of the Hmong LS-108, the largest airfield in northern Laos, which the royal…”
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from the Sam Nua Valley area and from points around the Plain of Jars. Between January 10th and 15th, Air America and Pony Express helicopters joined hands to lift over 5,000 people off near Sam Nua. Another evacuation reduced losses in the…
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to keep them safe. North Vietnamese attacks failed in May, but again in June, Lima Site 108 was overran, necessitating another air rescue. Vang Pao did not lose many more positions and even managed to recapture a couple. Even Bill Sullivan'…
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Because that was the whole purpose. They want us drugged and stupid. All right. So North Vietnamese dry season offensive of 1969 climaxed with the loss in late June of the Hmong LS-108, the largest airfield in northern Laos, which the royal…
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mountains, and they were working with Vang Pao. They referred to him, his nickname as Heine Adderfold. He surveyed the northern Laos network of airstrips, which came to be called Lima sites, then stayed in Laos two years to oversee their co…
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cities Long Tiang became the nerve center of the CIA's secret war. The Lima site airstrip and landing techniques were perfected to the point that the C-130s could get rid of the entire palletized cargo in a quick flyby. Smaller Air America …
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That was pointed out to us while we were there. As we were flying with clouds, sudden mist, rain, and enemy guns justified the pay. Of four Air America C-130 crews trained in the mid-60s, only one remained in the 1970s. Destinations, the Li…
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gave the clandestine army a new mission. Accurate bombing required precise navigation, leading the Air Force to put a radio beacon at Phau Pha Tinh, a Hmong sacred place in one of the tallest mountains in Laos. Later, the U.S. added a radar…
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It was also referred to as Lima Site 85. Pony Express, an Air Force helicopter lift activity, moved 150 tons of equipment to the site for radar installation and a dozen Americans necessary to operate the equipment. Vang Pao's Hmong were to …
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overrode everything, that mountain area did not escape Hanoi's attention. It made a concerted effort to neutralize the installation. In one of the few recorded instances of North Vietnamese bombing in January 1968, two of the four biplanes …
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by an Air America pilot firing a rifle from his helicopter. This battle punctuated Ted Shackley's final months as the station chief in Laos. The blonde ghost from Cuba and Berlin rode close herd over Project Momentum, installing his own man…
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Secord, who liked to think he and Clines made a great team, watched the aerial photography of Hanoi's troops close in on the mountaintop. He called repeatedly for airstrikes to halt the buildup. Lair took those warnings to heart, but the re…
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could not be held beyond March 10th. Others believe Shackley's oddly complacent in the threat. Airstrikes would be too few and too late if they made a run for the radar site. The Hmong SGU guarding the base were driven off. Two of the CIA a…