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- Operation Junction City Jr. was a major Laotian offensive of the Vietnam War; initially aimed at temporary disruption of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, it was extended into an attempt to isolate the major North Vietnamese communist transshipment point at Tchepone from the units it was supposed to supply. After an initial blooding from 23 to 27 March 1969 during Operation Duck, three Royal Lao Army irregular battalions trained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were launched on Operation Junction City Jr. On 28 July 1969, a Royalist force occupied the airfield at Vang Tai, to begin the offensive. Moving out in August under tactical air cover directed by Raven FACs and Nail FACs, elements of the Royalist force captured the Route 9/23 road junction near Pathet Lao-held Moung Phine on 4 September. After capturing Moung Phine, the Royalists extended the campaign in an attempt to neutralize Tchepone during September, foreshadowing the future Operation Lam Son 719. By 17 October 1969, Operation Junction City Jr. had been pushed back to its point of departure; however, it had destroyed supplies sufficient to have kept a communist division in the field. (en)
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- No lasting change in territory. Royalist incursion starves PAVN division into retreat
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- Backed by ~50,000
- Battalion-size
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- Unknown (en)
- Est. 500 KIA (en)
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- Operation Junction City Jr. (en)
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- Muong Phine; the Route 9/23 junction; Tchepone (en)
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- No lasting change in territory. Royalist incursion starves PAVN division into retreat (en)
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- Backed by ~50,000 (en)
- Battalion-size (en)
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- Operation Junction City Jr. was a major Laotian offensive of the Vietnam War; initially aimed at temporary disruption of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, it was extended into an attempt to isolate the major North Vietnamese communist transshipment point at Tchepone from the units it was supposed to supply. (en)
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- Operation Junction City Jr. (en)
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- Operation Junction City Jr. (en)
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