Timeline, January 29th

[David]

SECOND INDOCHINA WAR:
January 29, 1961 (13th day of the 12th month, Year of the Horse): National Front for Liberation (NLF) formed in North.

January 29, 1966 (9th day of the 1st month, Year of the Horse)(US Counteroffensive): Operation Double Eagle I update.

January 29, 1968 (30th day of the 12th month, Year of the Goat)(US Counteroffensive Phase III): The first phase of Operation Macarthur ends.

January 29, 1968 (30th day of the 12th month, Year of the Goat)(US Counteroffensive Phase III): The 57th Assault Helicopter Company begins preparations for assuming the FOB II mission from the 119th AHC.

January 29, 1968 (30th day of the 12th month, Year of the Goat)(US Counteroffensive Phase III): Operation Coburg update: C Company 3 RAR moves to Fire Base Harrison, Bien Hoa Province.

January 29, 1970 (22nd day of the 12th month, Year of the Rooster)(US Winter-Spring 1970): Operation Wayne Thrust update.

January 29, 1970 (22nd day of the 12th month, Year of the Rooster)(US Winter-Spring 1970): The lead copter of three Company C, 158th AVN Hueys is hit by an RPG while picking up a team of combat engineers in the A Shau Valley. Its pilots somehow manage to lift off and clear the landing zone for the two waiting Hueys and move the doomed helicopter about a hundred yards over the jungle before crashing; two are killed instantly, the third dies two weeks later. The fourth crewman falls 80 feet into the jungle before the Huey explodes and is rescued the next day.

Late January 1973 (11th month, Year of the Rat): The unilateral cease-fire announced by Lon Nol's regime soon proves meaningless. The Khmer Rouge, controlling most of the countryside and reinforced by several thousand NVA and VC, increase pressure on the principal cities and lines of communications, and the Phnom Penh government is critically dependent on US material and air support.

THIRD INDOCHINA WAR:
January 29, 1979 (2nd day of the 1st month, Year of the Goat): Radio Hanoi says that some 200 Chinese troops have raided the northern frontier province of Lang Son.

January 29, 1979 (2nd day of the 1st month, Year of the Goat): Khmer Rouge guerrillas claim to have isolated the Vietnamese garrison in Phnom Penh and say that ten other Kampuchean cities are threatened.