List of allied military operations of the Vietnam War (1964) explained

This article is a list of known military operations of the Vietnam War in 1964, conducted by the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States and their allies.

Date Duration Operation Name Unit(s) – Description Location VC - PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs
64 – 65 Operation DeSoto I[1] US Navy and Republic of Vietnam Navy operation along the coast of North Vietnam to provoke coastal radar installations so electronic intelligence (ELINT) ships could record the resulting transmissions South China Sea
Jan 5 Unnamed[2] ARVN operation supported by U.S. aircraft to encircle a Vietcong battalion
Jan 18 Unnamed[3] 115 helicopters carry 1,100 ARVN troops in the largest air assault of the war to date
Apr 18 Operation Lam Son 115[4] ARVN 32nd Ranger Battalion and HMM-364 operation
Apr 27 – May 25 Operation Quyet Thang 202[5] ARVN and HMM-364 air assault Do Xa area, 46 km west of Quảng Ngãi, border of Quảng Ngãi and Kon Tum Provinces 62 23
May 4 Operation Chuong Duong 10[6] ARVN operation Pleiku Province
May 15 – Oct 1 Operation Leaping Lena[7] ARVN, CIDG and 5th Special Forces long-range patrolling to provide the groundwork for the formation of a combined American-South Vietnamese special reconnaissance unit capable of conducting the most hazardous and critical missions inside the country as required by MACV and the Vietnamese Joint General Staff. Renamed Project DELTA in October 1964 throughout South Vietnam
May 19 USAF reconnaissance Laos
May 24 Unnamed ARVN operation
May 29 Operation Dan Chi 132ARVN operation
May 30 Operation Chinh NghiaARVN operation
May 31 Operation Quyet Thang 303ARVN operation
Jun 2 UnnamedARVN operation
Jun 16 – Jul 12 Operation Quyet Thang 404ARVN operation
Jun 17 ARVN operation
Jul 9 UnnamedARVN operation
Jul 10 ARVN operation
Jul 14 – 16 ARVN operation
Jul 23 - 30 ARVN operation
Jul 26 UnnamedARVN operation
Aug 2 UnnamedARVN operation
Aug 4 UnnamedARVN operation
Aug 5 Operation Pierce Arrow[8] 1
Aug 11 – 17 Operation Chinh Nghia[9] ARVN assault on a Viet Cong base area
Aug 12 UnnamedARVN operation
Aug 13 ARVN operation
Aug 15 ARVN operation
Aug 17 ARVN operation
Aug 19 – 22 ARVN operation 11 km north of Tây Ninh city
Aug 20 – 29 ARVN operation
Aug 27 – 29 ARVN operation
Sep 1 – mid 1965 Operation Hop Tap[10] ARVN operation in an effort to push government control outward from Saigon into the surrounding six provinces of. Forces included the ARVN 5th Division and the Airborne and Marine Brigades. Two regiments of the ARVN 25th Division provided local security along with Regional Forces and Popular Forces, National Police and hamlet militia Gia Dinh, Biên Hòa, Bình Dương, Hậu Nghĩa, Long An, and Phước Tuy Provinces
Oct 1 – Jun 30 1970 Operation Project Delta[11] Project DELTA operated country-wide under the direction of MACV as approved by the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff throughout South Vietnam
Oct 17 – 19 Operation Dan Chi 80[12] ARVN operation 123
Nov 18 Unnamed[13] U.S.-Vietnamese air and ground search for a supposed VC stronghold Bình Dương and Tây Ninh Provinces
Dec 14 – Mar 29 1973 Operation Barrel Roll[14] [15] Laos
Dec 27 – 29 Operation Dan Chi 100-50[16] ARVN operation against the VC 207th, 303rd, 306th, and U Minh I Battalions

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vietnam Archive Operations Database . The Vietnam Center and Archive.
  2. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.
  3. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.
  4. Book: Whitlow, CAPT Robert. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: the Advisory & Combat Assistance Era, 1954-1964. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1977. B00313IWUI. 149.
  5. Whitlow, p. 152-154
  6. Web site: Special Report to the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China. International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. 13 February 1965. 19–20. 28 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20070205081420/http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/star/images/239/2391001003.pdf. 5 February 2007. dead.
  7. Book: Stanton, Shelby. Green Berets at War: U.S. Army Special Forces in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975. Ballantine Books. 1999. 978-0-8041-1884-2. 218.
  8. Book: Frankum, Ronald. Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam 1964-1975. Rowman & Littlefield. 2005. 978-0-7425-4302-7.
  9. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.
  10. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.
  11. Stanton, p. 218
  12. Web site: MACV Command History Chronology 1964. 2010-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20110814093811/http://dcbsoftware.com/ccSEA/Chronology/MACV_1964.html. 2011-08-14. dead.
  13. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.
  14. Book: Warner, Roger. Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America's Clandestine War in Laos. Steerforth Press. 1996. 978-1-883642-36-5. 135.
  15. Book: Morocco, John. The Vietnam Experience Rain of Fire: Air War, 1969–1973. Time-Life Books. 1985. 978-0-939526-14-7. 26. registration.
  16. Web site: Operation report information. Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association.

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