Operation Igloo White

Operation Igloo White
Part of the Vietnam War
Date1968–1973
Location
Southern Laos
Result Failure of U.S. strategy
Belligerents
 United States
 Thailand
 North Vietnam

Operation Igloo White was a covert United States joint military electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. These missions were carried out by the 553d Reconnaissance Wing, a U.S. Air Force unit flying modified EC-121R Warning Star aircraft, and VO-67, a specialized U.S. Navy unit flying highly modified OP-2E Neptune[1] aircraft. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and communications relay aircraft in an attempt to automate intelligence collection. The system would then assist in the direction of strike aircraft to their targets. The objective of those attacks was the logistical system of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) that snaked through southeastern Laos and was known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail (the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese).[1]

  1. ^ a b Correll, John T. (November 2004). "Igloo White". Air Force Magazine. 87 (11): 56–61. Retrieved 30 October 2009.