Operation Blackjack 33
In 1967, James Donahue was a Special Forces medic and an assistant platoon leader for the Mobile Guerrilla Force's fiercely anti-Vietnamese Cambodian mercenaries. On mission Blackjack-33, they were to act as bait and lure VC and NVA regiments into decisive engagements so that they could be targeted and destroyed by the 1st Infantry Division.
On 27 August 1950, the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment was reorganized and redesignated as the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. The unit was quickly sent to Korea and within the first month defeated a enemy force of 3,000 soldiers.
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Capture of Pyongyang, seat of the North Korean government, was in itself a significant victory, but U. N. strategy also included trapping as many of the remaining Communist troops as possible. The 187th Airborne RCT had been standing by for employment in such an aerial envelopment, and on 18 October MacArthur gave the order: on 20 October the RCT was to be dropped.
The Rakkasans performed a textbook parachute assault and heavy drop at Sukchon/Sunchon, villages 30 miles north of Pyongyang, in an attempt to trap fleeing North Korean soldiers. On 20 October, 71 C-119s and forty C-47s participated in the operation, dropping more than 2,800 troops and 300 tons of equipment and supplies at Sukchon and Sunchon. The command also began airlifting Eighth Army supplies to Pyongyang. The airborne operation and fighter attack so startled North Korean troops that they abandoned strong defensive positions, leaving loaded guns with ammunition alongside. On 21 October UN forces from Pyongyang linked up with the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team in the Sukchon-Sunchon area. H-5s of the 3d ARS evacuated some thirty-five paratroopers in the first use of a helicopter in support of an airborne operation. On October 23 the cargo command concluded its fourth consecutive day of airlift for the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. The Flying Boxcars had airdropped almost 4,000 troops and nearly 600 tons of materiel, including jeeps, trucks, and howitzers.
Colonel Hampton, Commanding Officer of the 314th Combat Cargo Wing, personnally led 120 aircraft on the airborne invasion of the Sukchon-Sunchon area of Korea. Colonel Hampton led the unarmed aircraft of his organzation over the drop zone and heavily defended enemy positions at extremely low altitude, thereby exposing himself to intense enemy ground fire. The 187th Airborne earned their second Presidential Unit Citation (Army) for the parachute assault at Sukchon-Sunchon. By direction of the President, the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism while participating in aerial flight during the period indicated is awarded to General of the Army DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, United States Army. General MacArthur made a flight to the Sukchon-Sunchon area of Korea on 20 October in order to observe and supervise the para-drop of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team. During this entire operation his aircraft was subject to attack by enemy aircraft known to be based at Sinuiju.
The 187th Airborne also performed another record-breaking airborne operation into Munsan-ni Valley 23-27 March 1951. The 314th TCG and the 437th TCW air transports flew from Taegu to Munsan-ni, an area behind enemy lines some twenty miles northwest of Seoul, and dropped the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team and two Ranger companies -- more than 3,400 men and 220 tons of equipment and supplies. Fifth Air Force fighters and light bombers had largely eliminated enemy opposition. In one of its most important missions, the 452nd Bombardment Group, Light supported the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment's mass parachute drop over North Korean lines at Munsan-ni on 23 March 1951. Leading the troop carrier aircraft over the target area, the group dropped 500-pound bombs, fired rockets, and strafed the CCF front line. On March 24 and 26-27, 1951 fifty-two C-119s and C-46s dropped an additional 264 tons of supplies to the troops at Munsan-ni because surface lines of communication were undependable. This second combat jump at Musan-ni cut off and destroyed large number of forces above the 38th parallel.
Some of the heaviest fighting of the Korean War occured in June and July of 1953. The Battle of Boomerang occured on the night of June 14-15, 1953. After the Battle of Boomerang, the 187th Airborne returned to Korea and asked for all their experienced paratroopers back. Many were sure they were going to make a combat jump and wanted to be part of one. But instead of jumping, the 187th put troops on the frontline as regular infantry. The 3rd Battalion of the 9th Regiment repulsed further Chinese attacks between July 16th and 18th, and the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. The 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment successes in Korea changed the face of airborne warfare and revitalized interest in the use of paratroopers. It also convinced the Pentagon to reactivate XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Combat experience in Korea and the advent of tactical nuclear weapons demonstrated a need to rethink many aspects of Army organization and operations, not only for the regular combat divisions, but for the airborne units whose performance there had not fulfilled the promises of a decade before. From this rethinking process emerged two developments: one, the Pentomic reorganization, which was first applied to the reactivated 101st Airborne Division; and, two, the air assault/air mobile concept, the latter seen not as a replacement of, but a supplement to, the airborne division.
When civil strife broke out in the Dominican Republic in April 1965, the United States decided to dispatch troops to protect American lives and to prevent a possible Castro-type takeover by Communist elements. Marines were landed on 28 April from ships offshore and two battalions of the 82d Airborne Division and their supporting forces were ordered to move with minimum essential equipment from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, to Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico, on the 29th of April.
POWER PACK I, as the 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division, was designated for the move, contained 2,253 men. Approximately 67 hours after it was alerted, lead elements of POWER PACK I became airborne. Employing 111 heavy drop aircraft and 33 personnel carrying aircraft, the 3d Brigade headed for Puerto Rico. While enroute, however, Washington political and military leaders changed the destination of the force to San Isidro Airfield, Dominican Republic and ordered the 3d Brigade to airland instead of airdrop. This change caused some immediate problems since ground materiel handling equipment was not available at San Isidro to unload heavy drop loads and the equipment had to be unloaded manually. In addition San Isidro soon became saturated and only the 33 personnel carrying and 46 of the heavy drop aircraft were able to land on the 29th. This development separated the troops from much of their equipment at a critical moment. Fortunately no opposition to the landings arose and the missing equipment which had been landed at Puerto Rico was flow in to San Isidro the following day.
POWER PACK II, the 2d Brigade (-) of the 82d Airborne Division, was alerted on 28 April and ordered to move to the Dominican Republic on 1 May. The force contained two airborne battalions and supporting elements with a total of 2,276 men. Using the same planes as the 3d Brigade on a shuttle basis as they became available, the POWER PACK II force also arrived in the Dominican Republic approximately 72 hours after it was alerted. The third echelon of the 82d Airborne Division, POWER PACK III, contained the remainder of the 2d Brigade, consisting of two airborne battalions and support forces, and elements of the 5th Logistical Command to provide logistical backup; it totalled 3,302 men and officers. POWER PACK III was shuttled in between the afternoon of 2 May and the morning of 3 May. POWER PACK IV, the fourth echelon of the 82d, consisted of the 1st Brigade with three airborne battalions and support forces with a total of 3,000 men an officers. It began to deploy from the United States on the shuttling aircraft on 3 May and completed its move to the Dominican Republic the following morning. Thus, in the five day period between 29 April and 4 May, over 10,500 men of the 82d Division and supporting elements were airlifted into the Dominican Republic. Additional Army units with a strength of about 3,000 men including the remainder of the 82d Airborne Division, Special Forces troops, psychological warfare units, signal and transportation elements, arrived in the Dominican Republic prior to 9 May.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted Operation Junction City, the first combat parachute jump in the Vietnam conflict, on 22 February 1967. Other paratroop assaults had occasionally been planned (for example, in NEW LIFE-65), but none were performed until Operation JUNCTION CITY. A battalion from 173d jumped almost simultaneously with multiple helicopter assaults, staged over a wide region. The parachute assault thus served the modest purpose of enlarging the assault force beyond that transportable by available helicopters. The 50th Tactical Airlift Squadron participated in Operation JUNCTION CITY, one the first large-scale personnel airdrops in Vietnam. USAF C-130s airlifted the 173rd Brigade from Bien Hoa to take part in Operation Junction City, near Cambodian border. After the jumps, the C-130s made cargo drops, for several weeks resupplying elements positioned along the Cambodian border. In the final stages of JUNCTION CITY, the 130s sustained an American infantry brigade in 'floating' operations over the operational area, making daily drops into newly designated drop zones. The airdrop and extraction capabilities thus were confirmed useful assets, with their greater applications in Vietnam yet ahead.
Junction City involved 22 US and four South Vietnamese battalions in an 83-day operation supported by massive air and artillery fires. The results included only 2,728 enemy casualties, about 33 per day. Similar 'search and destroy' operations produced h similarly 'underwhelming' paltry enemy casualty figures. Operation Junction City yielded fewer enemy dead than one could have expected, but that was because the 9th Vietcong Division simply retreated into the sanctuary of Cambodia. The communist supply network in the Iron Triangle was never as robust after Junction City.
The JUNCTION CITY assault remained the largest American paratroop operation of the Vietnam War, but others followed. On 02 April 1967 a total of 356 toops (including Montagnards) of 5th Special Forces Group (ABN), 1st Special Forces: Detachment A-503 Mike Force: Co's. 2 & 3 jumped into Bunard, Phouc Long 'Happy Dragon' Province Vietnam as part of Operation Harvest Moon. At 0600 hrs on 13 May 1967 a total of 486 troops of Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne): Detachment A-503, Co's. 3, 4 & 5; 4.2 Mortar platoon & Hdqts. group conducted a water jump at 700 ft. as part of Operation Blackjack in Seven Mountains ( Near Chi Lang, 1km S of Nuai Yai), in the SW corner of Vietnam. And on 5 October 1967 a total of 250 troops (w/ARVN paras & Australians) of the 5th Special Forces Group (SFG), Mobile Strike Force (Mike Force), Co's 24 & 25, ll Corps Mike Force (Detachment B-20, B Co. 5th SFG) conducted Operation Blue Max in Bu Prang, Vietnam. A number of other much smaller operations were conducted by special forces detachments.
In the early morning hours of 25 October 1983, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, spearheading a US joint forces assault on the Caribbean island of Grenada, conducted a low-level parachute jump to seize an airfield at Point Salinas. In all, over 500 Army Rangers from the 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions made a combat jump into Point Salines Airport. Their mission was to protect the lives of Americans and restore democracy to the island nation. Operation Urgent Fury was a five-day fight covering most of the 120-square-mile island. Problems beset the operation from the start. The loss of the inertial navigation system in the lead C-130 aircraft meant that the flow of C-130s, had to be adjusted in the air and delayed the parachute assault by the Rangers at Point Salines. Adjusting the sequence of aircraft lost the JSOC forces the cover of darkness, cost them tactical surprise and mixed the Ranger units on the landing zone. Delay of the airdrop until daylight put it thirty-six minutes behind the Marine assault at Pearls and cost the Rangers and other Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) forces tactical surprise. The 21 October 1983 news report that US warships had been diverted to Grenada had robbed the operation of strategic surprise.
As the Rangers' C-130s approached the Point Salines airfield, the Cubans put up stiff resistance using antiaircraft guns and automatic weapons. Lieutenant Colonel Wesley B. Taylor, USA, commanding the 1st Ranger Battalion, decided to reduce the time of descent and vulnerability to ground fire by having his men jump from five hundred feet. Once on the ground a company of Rangers assembled at either end of the airfield. Hot-wiring a bulldozer, they used it to clear obstacles strewn on the runway. Once the Rangers had seized the airfield, they went on to rescue American citizens and eliminate pockets of resistance. Five Rangers from 1/75. made the ultimate sacrifice, never to step foot on US soil again.
Air Force Combat Controllers played a vital role in the 1983 Grenada rescue operation. The first airborne insertion occurred with an MC-130 airdrop of twelve combat controllers and a force of US Army rangers from an altitude of 500 feet. Each combat controller carried a typical combat load, 90 pounds of equipment in addition to about 40 pounds (no reserve rig) of parachute gear. CCT quickly established a command and control radio net and air-to-ground radio communications in order to work inbound aircraft for follow-on airdrops and airland missions. They also acted as forward air guides for US Air Force gunships and US Navy fighter aircraft.
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The Mystery Of Operation Blackjack
Hello ATS,
Before I go onto discuss my reasoning for starting this thread, firstly let me make it clear that the idea for it came from another member by the nameof Alan12 and a post of his which you can all find in another thread of this naturehere. I'm starting this thread as I also noticed this user commentedfurther down that he wasn't able to make a separate thread of his own due to the current posting limits (20 posts to make a new thread) and since hehasn't been online since June the 26th of last year.. I'm assuming he hasn't been working on getting his post count up in order to start a thread ofhis own already.
So with posting this thread I really do have to stress that the credit for the various different information posted goes to him, not me. I'm simplyposting it here because I find this topic quite interesting, I thought the information he shared pretty much deserved a separate thread of it's ownand I saw he wasn't able to make such a thread..
Bearing the above in mind I have to be honest here, I'm still finding myself feeling a little bit skeptical about the true nature of what 'OperationBlackjack' really was. Personally I'm more inclined to believe it was as the makers of it claimed it was - entirely fictional. But still, and withbeing honest, I have to admit I found Operation Blackjack to be an 'odd' one to say the least and whether true, who knows really, but It's of courseunlikely.
Before continuing further at this point, I'm aware that quite a lot of new members here might not be wholly aware of what I'm talking about in theslightest here so first off and for some clarification...
What is Operation Blackjack?
Operation Blackjack was seemingly a completely random and unusual series of disturbing pictures posted in the Telegraph newspaper depicting a seriesof Nuclear attacks on major western cities, first beginning in London and then cities such as New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Portland, MexicoCity and Toronto.
With these set of images depicting nuclear attacks we're presented with images showing how these attacks first began, a date of when attacks wouldoccur and a specific time of the day. The first series in particular showed these as well as a series of photo shopped images showing the aftermath ofsuch an attack and how it would impact various major landmarks for example..
As the series of images unfolded, as there was more than 1 series of images over a few weeks, it became clear that these attacks wouldn't take placeby extremists of any kind, or even a foreign nation, instead It was what many of us here at ATS would simply refer to 'TPTB' - in other words the realworld leaders, those with authority higher than say the President of the Unites States for example. The hidden leaders of this world. This of courseslightly unusual to be shown in what became quite a well known series of images in a national newspaper shown to millions upon millions of people herein the UK.
It was shown in these series of images that these 'Elite' figures secretly ruling the world were conspiring to attack their own nations in order tocreate a new country, a new currency and a seemingly new and much stricter system of control, presumably using fear of nuclear attack from a foreignpower - At this time I feel It's also worth pointing out that this is something that will be quite familiar to most around ATS..
What I mean by that is In the early 60's we know of a secretive government project known simply as Operation Northwoods, which was an operationplanning a nation-wide false flag attack on an American city by the American government in order to later blame a foreign power (in this case Cuba) tothen overthrow the regime and install a much more 'Western-friendly' one in place. More reading on this particular project can be found here in fact:
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Operation Northwoods was a series of false-flag proposals that originated within the United States government in 1962. The proposals called forthe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or other operatives, to commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were tobe blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which had recently become communist under Fidel Castro.[2] One partof Operation Northwoods was to 'develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.'
Operation Northwoods proposals included hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cubangovernment. It stated:
'The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievancesfrom a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere.'
Several other proposals were included within Operation Northwoods, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civiliantargets. The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. Although part ofthe U.S. government's Cuban Project anti-communist initiative, Operation Northwoods was never officially accepted; it was authored by the Joint Chiefsof Staff, but then rejected by President John F. Kennedy.
ATS threads:
High-Level American Officials Admit that the United States Uses False Flag Terror
CONS: Project Northwoods. America's plan to attack America.
Why isn't Operation Northwoods enough to convince people that 9/11 was an insidejob?
Off-Site sources:
Wikipedia - Operation Northwoods
WhatReallyHappened - Northwoods
ABCNews - U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
In place of the previous government, again according to these set of images, was put in place a fascist government and a heavily policed state. Wellonce again this is seemingly based on something quite familiar from real life... something called the 'Business Plot.'
You see the Business Plot was centered around the 1930's and It involved well known corporations of the time coming together to quite literally createan army, overthrow the American government (FDR at the time) and to install a fascist dictatorship in his place, quite similar to what the slidesportrayed in fact only they portrayed this occurring in modern times.
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'A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with thefascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling familiesare to the Nazi regime.... A prominent executive of one of the largest corporations, told me point blank that he would be ready to take definiteaction to bring fascism into America if President Roosevelt continued his progressive policies. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to dowith bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helpingto keep it there. Propagandists for fascist groups try to dismiss the fascist scare. We should be aware of the symptoms. When industrialists ignorelaws designed for social and economic progress they will seek recourse to a fascist state when the institutions of our government compel them tocomply with the provisions.'
ATS threads: The Attempted American Coup d'etat..
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The Business Plot (Takeover of the White House)- 1933Major General Smedley Darlington Butler: ATS Idol
Off-Site sources:
Wikipedia - The Business Plot
PrisonPlanet.com - BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup InAmerica
The Business Plot – The Corporate Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR and Create a Fascist Dictatorship in the USAOperation Blackjack 331
The set of images then went onto show the current state of the world after the initial nuclear attacks, such as a revolution taking place for exampleand the people of the world rising up against the new regimes. Anyway, In order to get a better understanding of what the images were trying to showexactly, first they most probably should be seen.
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Here are some of the images from the first series for further viewing:The full series of images can be foundhere.