USAF - OPERATION PHI HOA paratroopers jump from Air Force C-123 transports in the initial air assault wave during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike during March 1963 against the Viet Cong in the Tay Ninh Province of South Viet Nam; Scope and content: USAF - OPERATION PHI HOA paratroopers jump from Air Force C-123 transports in the initial air assault wave during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike during March 1963 against the Viet Cong in the Tay Ninh Province of South Viet Nam. Sixteen C-123'
USAF - OPERATION PHI HOA paratroopers jump from Air Force C-123 transports in the initial air assault wave during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike during March 1963 against the Viet Cong in the Tay Ninh Province of South Viet Nam; Scope and content: USAF - OPERATION PHI HOA paratroopers jump from Air Force C-123 transports in the initial air assault wave during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike during March 1963 against the Viet Cong in the Tay Ninh Province of South Viet Nam. Sixteen C-123's dropped more than 840 paratroopers in two minutes after the Vietnamese Air Force tactical fighters and bombers worked over the area. A smoke bomb, dropped minutes before the assault, marks the drop zone.
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