Opeartion Igloo white Vietnam

[Bombardier]

I have recently watched a documentary about vietnam which touched on the subject of 'Operation Igloo White', this involved the dropping of sensors along the Ho Chi Minh trail that could detect movement and sound wherever they landed.
As I said it only touched on the subject and I wondered if anybody had any further information, especially with regards to the success of this operation?.

An obscure one I know but hey...Im interested rbo;

[HighlandSniper58]

I have read about this and seen photos of the sensors - they were disguised to lok like tropical plants and were weighted so that they fell the right way up and stuck into the ground.

[Bombardier]

Where Can I find some of these sensor photos?

:?: :D

[The Cooler King]

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/6434/1104igloo11xd.jpg

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1163/adsid6vp.jpg http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/2761/1104igloo20hx.jpg

http://www.afa.org/magazine/Nov2004/1104igloo.asp

Mike

[John A Silkstone]

We used motion sensors in our barracks area in Northern Ireland and it would go off every few minutes and the lads keep investigating but never
found anything. The equipment was sent away to be checked
and another installed. This too would go off five or six hundren
times a day. It turned out to be a group of house Martins that had
built their nests under the eaves of a building and were passing
through the beams eye going to and fro from the nest.

Silky

[Bombardier]

Great Pics cooler King, many thanks.
John - I bet that used to piss people off plenty (Y)

[The Cooler King]

No problem Bombardier.

I was watching a documentary on Khe Sanh the other day. In this documentary, they said that they used these sensors around the combat base. Anyone know how common the use of these sensors were during the war? Were there more occasions in which they were used?

Mike