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Lima Site 85 Crisis

Name: Lima Site 85 Crisis – Laos factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Laos · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1968Date range

2Named people

2Places

Chronological records

1968

Vang Pao11 March 1968

Phou Pha Thi · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Hmong and US-linked forces lose the strategic radar site.

William Sullivan11 March 1968

Vientiane · Warfare / Vietnam War, 2nd

Faces the loss of the secret US radar site at Phou Pha Thi.

Names involved

Vang PaoWilliam Sullivan

Provenance

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