* 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U. S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.

* September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces.

The other satire Swift affixed to the Tale, " The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit ," illustrates the other theme: an inversion of the figurative and literal as a part of madness.

Operation Swift was a military operation that took place in the Vietnam War.

Operation Swift, intended to be the fourth and the last of the 1967 operations in the Que Son Valley, began unofficially the morning of September 4 when Delta Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines ( 1 / 5 ) was attacked before dawn by a superior PAVN force while setup in a night-time defensive perimeter next to the village of Dong Son.

This officially began Operation Swift.

U. S. intelligence agencies later determined that the two enemy regiments that had been most active during Operation Swift were subsequently unfit for combat.

:"... As part of the U. S. Navy's slice of the action, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his sidekick, Captain Roy ( Latch ) Hoffmann, had devised ' Operation Sea Lords ,' in which the Swift boats would patrol the canals and secondary streams of the Mekong Delta, with particular emphasis on the areas near the Cambodian border.

* Operation Swift in the Vietnam War, 1967

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Notable battles and operations include Operation Chinook 1966-67, Battle of Hill 488, Operation Swift, Operation Wheeler / Wallowa, Operation Union I & II, Huế-Đà Nẵng Campaign, Ha My massacre and Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.

On September 6, 1967, he was operating with his unit in the Quang Nam Province on a search and clear mission during Operation Swift, when they were attacked by a large North Vietnamese force.

Exercise Saif Sareea II, also known as " Operation Swift Sword II ", was a major military exercise in September and October 2001 involving the military of the United Kingdom and Oman.

Eisenhower had reviewed the airborne role in Operation Husky, and had concluded that large-scale formations were too difficult to control in combat to be practical.

Israel concluded that " it seemed clear beyond any doubt that the initiative was motivated by a political agenda and not concern for human rights " and therefore refused to cooperate with it – in contrast to its policy to cooperate fully with most of the international inquiries into events in the Gaza Operation.

Operation Desert Lion was concluded on 30 March 2003.

As Operation Uranus concluded, German forces inside the encirclement were too weak to attempt a breakout on their own.

Operation Smithfield concluded at 17: 00 with the Australians subsequently returning to Nui Dat by helicopter and APC by 17: 30.

The Navy also took participation in Operation United Shield in 1995 with the United States, dispatching two destroyers to support the U. S. Navy's operation and concluded its side of operation after evacuating personnel and equipments of army and air force.

During the intelligence-gathering portion of the planning for Operation Bruilof, the SADF concluded that the small town of Cassinga was the principal medical centre for the guerrillas in the region, and one of SWAPO's two regional HQ's ( the lother being further north at Lubango ).

Wilson concluded, " We can make one statement of fact: the fireball sightings — green or otherwise — occurred in areas that received radioactive debris from Operation Buster.

It followed upon the heels of Operation Killer, an eight day UN offensive that concluded February 28, to push Communist forces north of the Han River.

In his autobiography, Admiral Shariff provided the account of Operation Searchlight, as he said Shariff concluded, The initial military success in regaining the law and order situation in East Pakistan in March of 1971 was misunderstood as a complete success.

Despite this, five years later the 29th Comptrollers Report into the conduct of the IDF during Operation Litani which left 21 IDF soldiers dead, concluded that " conditions same as 1973 ".

By the time " Operation: Zero Tolerance " concluded in 1997, major characters such as Bishop, Gambit, Jean Grey and Cyclops had been written out of the X-Men.

In November 2005, prosecutors said that specialists appointed by the court in the Operation Colombo case had concluded that while he suffered from mild dementia, he was fit enough to stand trial.

Large-scale air raids in World War II, including the preliminary bombing during Operation Market Garden to aid the US 101st Airborne Division paratroopers in securing the bridges in and around the town on 18 September 1944, destroyed large parts of the city.

Several thousand large animals threatened by the rising water were rescued by Operation Noah.

From 1960 to 1961, ' Operation Noah ' captured and removed around 6, 000 large animals and numerous small ones threatened by the lake's rising waters.

* 1952 – Operation Ivy – The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed " Mike " for megaton, in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean.

In early March 2002 the United States military, along with allied Afghan military forces, conducted a large operation to destroy al-Qaeda in an operation code-named Operation Anaconda.

However, post-war resettlements from Poland's ethnically and religiously more diverse former eastern territories ( known in Polish as Kresy ) and the eastern parts of post-1945 Poland ( see Operation Vistula ) account for a comparatively large portion of Greek Catholics and Orthodox Christians of mostly Ukrainian and Lemko descent.

Still, within the constraints of a very large effort overall, Eisenhower gave Montgomery and his 21st Army Group a strong priority for supplies for Operation Market Garden.

Operation Felix, the plan for taking Gibraltar, became stillborn as Spain remained neutral, a situation in large part caused by the German demand that Spain provide Germany with naval bases in Canary Islands as the price for Gibraltar.

Comet was replaced by a more ambitious plan to bypass the Siegfried Line by hooking around its northern end, allowing the Allies to cross the Rhine with large forces and trap the German Fifteenth Army between Arnhem and the shores of the IJsselmeer: Operation Market Garden.

Later large scale drops, such as those on the Rhine under Operation Varsity, were successful, but less ambitious in their intent to seize ground.

Plans for a large and intense offensive targeting Berlin and the other eastern cities had been discussed under the code name Operation Thunderclap in mid-1944, but it had been shelved on 16 August.

The British government has traditionally been wary of large banknotes since the counterfeiting Operation Bernhard in World War II which caused the Bank of England to withdraw all notes larger than £ 5 from circulation, and not reintroduce other denominations until the early 1960s (£ 10 ), 1970 (£ 20 ) and March 20, 1981 (£ 50 ).

After the US led Operation Enduring Freedom began in early October 2001, Omar went into hiding and is still at large.

* ( large stockpiles of Soviet weapons were captured and designated as the Gewehr 252-256 series following Operation Barbarossa )

This pilot project of Operation Plowshare, codenamed Project Gasbuggy, was an attempt to fracture a large volume of underground bedrock to make more natural gas available for extraction by gas wells.

Unlike most first-person shooters, in which a dozen or more separate, self-contained ' maps ' typically make up the game world, the game world in Operation Flashpoint consists of large fictitious islands.

During Operation Fiery Vigil in June 1991, the following vessels participated in the sealift phase of the evacuation: the Lincoln battle group ( COMCARGRU 3 embarked ):,,,,,,, Amphibious Ready Group Alpha ( COMPHIBRON 3 embarked ):,,,, and a large number of other vessels:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.

On 4 April 1961, President Kennedy then approved the Bay of Pigs plan ( also known as Operation Zapata ), because it had an airfield that would not need to be extended to handle bomber operations, it was farther away from large groups of civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it was less " noisy " militarily, which would make any future denial of direct US involvement more plausible.

During World War II, Japan had a large base at Truk Lagoon, which the Allies effectively neutralized in Operation Hailstone.

The station site was chosen in 1953 by Dr. Phillip Law, first director of the AAD, who drew on aerial photographs taken during the U. S. Operation Highjump ( OpHjp ) of 1946-1947 to select the site for its large natural harbour ( Horseshoe Harbour ) and permanently exposed rock for building.

In late 1942 Operation Torch, the first large Allied combined operation, was launched.

The main reason for the large aircraft losses in the initial period of war with Germany was not the lack of modern tactics, but the lack of experienced pilots and ground support crews, the destruction of many aircraft on the runways due to command failure to disperse them, and the rapid advance of the Wehrmacht ground troops, forcing the Soviet pilots on the defensive during Operation Barbarossa, while being confronted with more modern German aircraft.

Tacitus knew it as Insula Batavorum (" Island of the Batavians ," the Germanic tribe from which the modern name is derived ) and indeed it could be considered a large river island, but nowadays it hardly ever is viewed as such ( with the exception of the last months of World War II ( October 1944-June 1945 ) when it became known as " Men's Island " or " Manneneiland " due to the evacuation of all civilian population during Operation Market Garden, leaving only soldiers behind ).

The largest use of booby traps ( between 2000 – 2005, the period of the Intifada ) was in the Battle of Jenin during Operation Defensive Shield where a large number ( 1000-2000 according to Palestinian militant captured in Jenin during the battle

Despite being a large and complex military operation with a well-executed amphibious and airborne component, Operation Dragoon is not well known ; it came in the later stages of the war and was overshadowed by the earlier and larger Operation Overlord.