Operation Pocket Money

Quand

9 mai 1972

Type

Opération militaire

Coordonnées

20.80° N, 106.67° E

Description

aerial mining campaign during the Vietnam War

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1972 U.S. blockade of North Vietnamese ports by naval mining

Operation Pocket Money was the title of a U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial mining campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 9 May 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive, an invasion of the Republic of Vietnam, by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), that had been launched on 30 March.

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