The Don Englebreston Collection
Gallery: TW docs
Scanned pages of the Operation Tailwind after-action report join an annotated reference map of MACV-SOG's operating area along the Laos/Vietnam border. The typewritten narrative recounts a helicopter shootdown and rescue, a night held off with bamboo clicks and an AC-130 Spectre gunship, and an assault on a fortified enemy base camp, while the map locates the Ho Chi Minh Trail passes, the NVA's "Oscar Eight" headquarters, and the Bolovens Plateau where it all unfolded.
CNN.com Printout: Floyd Abrams Independent Report on the Retracted 'Valley of Death' Broadcast, July 6, 1998
Declassified MAG-16 Command Chronology, Part II Narrative Summary, September 1970 — Operation 'Tail Wind' (Page II-1, Enclosure 1)
Declassified Military Map: 'South Vietnam - Prairie Fire Area of Operations,' Figure VIII-4
Declassified MACV-SOG Operations Map, Figure 6 (B-23) — Prairie Fire, Salem House, and Wasteland Zone Alpha Areas, Southeast Asia
Annotated Reference Map: MACV-SOG Operational Area, Laos/Vietnam Border Region
Typewritten After-Action Report, 'Operation Tailwind,' Page 2 -- MACV-SOG, September 1970
Operation Tailwind After-Action Narrative, Pages 3-4
Operation Tailwind After-Action Report, Pages 5-6 (Typewritten Document Scan)
Operation Tailwind After-Action Briefing Transcript, Page 7 (Fax Copy, Sherry McCarley)
Reference Document: 'MACV-SOG - The Studies and Observations Group' Fact Sheet
TIME Magazine Page: 'The Nerve Gas Story,' June 29, 1998
TIME Magazine, June 15 1998 — "Did the U.S. Drop Nerve Gas?" Operation Tailwind Article
TIME Magazine Two-Page Spread: 'Operation Tailwind,' June 15, 1998 (pp. 38-39)
