Highlights

 1. History: Operation Barrel Roll
 2. History: Project 404, Palace Dog
 3. Book: "The Battle for Skyline Ridge"
 4. Image: Long Tieng, LS 20 A, Skyline Ridge
 5. Image: Ravens Greven, Henry, Moose, Tom, Tiny, Tee, Koz, Potter, Smokey,
 6. Image: Raven Craig Morrison
 7. Image: Airdrop Phou Nok Kok
 8. Image: Ravens Craig, John, Ray, Wierd Harold, AD, Paul
 9. Image: Flight Line Snack Bar, Jerry, Tom, Joe
 A. Image: Raven Stan Ersted, Captured 37 mm AA Gun,
 B. Image: Plaine de Jarres
 C. Image: Flak Trap, PT-76 Tank, Rt 7
 D. Image: Road Runner Lake, Khan Khay, RT 71/7
 E. Image: Chapakao T-28D-5 Strike
 F. Image: O-1E
 G. Image: Gun Ring ZPU, 37 mm, 23 mm
 H. Image: T-28-D-5, O-1F
 I. Image: Raven: Craig Morrison, Refugee Evacuation

Ravens and Chapakao 1969-1970.

Meet the Ravens, Robin interpreters, and heroic "Fly till you Die" Chapakao pilots. The battlefield images were taken by O-1F, T-28D, and U-17B Raven pilot, William Platt. The mission was covert Close Air Support of Hmong, Lao, and Thai warriors on the Laotian PDJ. Intredict supply lines and fight regiments of the PAVN 312th and 316th Divisions, the 866th PAVN Infantry Regiment, the 16th PAVN Artillery Regiment, a tank company, six sapper and engineer battalions and ten Pathet Lao battalions.

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