Talk:Operation Junction City

message: Was this operation named for any Junction City in particular? – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 06:49, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was named for Junction City, Kansas, which is near the 1st Infantry Division's home post Fort Riley. The 1st ID also conducted operations named after Manhattan and Ogden, two other towns near Fort Riley.Intothatdarkness (talk) 18:35, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I notice the lede now claims it was named after a commanding officer's hometown. Which commanding officer? Neither Seaman nor Palmer were from Kansas. Intothatdarkness 19:28, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Are casualty figures available for PAVN and RVN forces? Also, does the figure of "1,728 killed" currently listed in the infobox represent only NLF losses or combined NLF/PAVN losses? Thanks, –Black Falcon (Talk) 19:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casualty figures 

message: removed the following because it needs a serious edit/re-write to measure up to Wikipedia standards.
The failure to gain surprise lay in discovery of the plans after NVA Colonel Dinh Thi Van managed to place one of her agents in social circles that included ARVN General Cao Van Vien and US General William Westmoreland. That agent further reported one ARVN staff officer's comment of the early phase of the operation: "[The Viet Cong] seem like ghosts. All the six spearheads of our forces have been attacked while we don't know exactly where their main force is. Even in Bau Hai Vung that is considered to be a safe area, we lost one brigade. It's so strange."Van, p. 237
~ Alcmaeonid (talk) 21:20, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede paragraph removed 

message: In the lede it is stated that Operation Junction City was "the largest U.S. airborne operation since Operation Varsity in March 1945". This is accompanied by a kind of limp citation that states, "Retrieved 9 November 2010". 
In the Operation section of the article it is claimed that  "845 paratroopers conducted the only mass jump of the Vietnam War and the largest since Operation Tomahawk of the Korean War", using a GlobalSecurity.org. web page titled "United States Combat Jumps". I have found several instances of incomplete or erroneous information on the GlobalSecurity website in previous research.  
OK, which is the largest combat jump before Operation Junction City? Operation Varsity or Operation Tomahawk? Can we find a better reference to back up one claim over the other? Cuprum17 (talk) 14:11, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Taking Airborne narrowly to mean parachute assault, Bernard Rogers' Vietnam Studies Cedar Falls-Junction City A Turning Point (page 101) and John Tolson's Vietnam Studies  Airmobility (page 126) each only states that the jump was the first U.S. combat parachute assault since the Korean War. In addition to the one battalion deployed by parachute, 8 battalions were landed by helicopters. Unless there's a source that explicitly states that it was the largest airborne operation since Varsity, Tomahawk or Sukchon/Sunchon, all the page should state is that it was the first (and only) U.S. combat parachute assault since the Korean War and was the largest airmobile operation of the war to that time.  Mztourist (talk) 08:46, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Conficting information