All six were safely recovered during the operation. The Americans were SOG personnel (Green Berets) while the Montagnards were indigenous personnel that worked with SOG. The group rescued was code named "RT Chisel," and it was composed of Staff Sergeant Ancil “Sonny” Franks, Sergeant Charles Hughes, three Montagnards, and Captain Randolph Harrison (he was the new CCS Recon Company commander and there to learn ops). Fleming earned the Medal of Honor while rescuing a six-man reconnaissance team.
The 20th's UH-1s supported these operations using the call sign Green Hornet. expanded its secret reconnaissance operations into Cambodia under the codenames DANIEL BOONE and later SALEM HOUSE. The 20th's mission expanded as they started working closely with forward air controllers and other USAF aircraft in Laos to rescue downed American pilots. Later, the squadron received Bell UH-1F/P "Huey" helicopters to support the effort.
Using the call sign Pony Express, Sikorsky CH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopters from the 20th Helicopter Squadron (later redesignated the 20th Special Operations Squadron) operated from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base in support of these secret missions and the radar sites. Air Force helicopters for transportation and resupply.Ĭovert reconnaissance operations into Laos, codenamed SHINING BRASS and later PRAIRIE FIRE, began in 1965. These cross-border or "over the fence" operations relied upon U.S. Army Special Forces personnel, those reconnaissance teams found targets for air strikes and later assessed the damage. In an effort to stop the communists' flow of supplies while appearing to respect Laotian and Cambodian neutrality, the United States secretly placed radar stations to guide air strikes and sent small reconnaissance teams of native personnel into Laos and Cambodia. This supply line, named the Truong Son Road but called the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" by Americans, consisted of a network of roads and hiding places concealed by jungle. To supply their forces in South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese built a secret road system through neutral Laos and Cambodia.
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