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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Operation
Commando Hunt was a covert U.S. Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task
Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign that took place during the Vietnam
War. The operation began on 11 November 1968 and ended on 29 March 1972.
The objective of the campaign was to prevent the transit of People's
Army of Vietnam (PAVN) personnel and supplies on the logistical corridor
known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail (the Truong Son Road to the North
Vietnamese) that ran from the southwestern Democratic Republic of
Vietnam (North Vietnam) through the southeastern portion of the Kingdom
of Laos and into the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). Systematic
U.S. aerial operations against the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun on 14
December 1964 with Operation Barrel Roll.