Operation Sea Dragon

American naval history records three operations dubbed Sea Dragon:

1. During the Korean war, Sea Dragon was a covert reconnaissance of the Yalu river estuary and its islands by a U.S./South Korean teams operating from fishing boats in April 1953.

2. During the Vietnam War, Sea Dragon was a series of naval operations beginning in 1966 to interdict sea lines of communications and supply going south from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, and to destroy land targets with naval gunfire. The primary purpose of Sea Dragon forces was the interception and destruction of water borne logistic craft (WBLC), which ranged in size from large self propelled barges down to small junks and sampans. US Navy advisers were assigned to the South Vietnamese Navy and US Navy minesweepers assisted South Vietnamese Navy (VNN) ships in carrying out patrols near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).Other American naval operations during the Vietnam War included Operation Market Time and Operation Sealords.

3. As part of the ongoing War on Terror, Operation Sea Dragon III involves Urban Warrior and security operations of Coalition naval forces in the Persian Gulf.

References

* "Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War". Oxford University Press, 2000.