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A flaming Marine CH-46 of HMM-265, after being hit by enemy AAA fire in "Helicopter Valley", 15 July 1966 [13] During the Vietnam War, the CH-46 was one of the prime US Marine troop transport helicopters in the theater, slotting between the smaller Bell UH-1 Iroquois and larger Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion and progressively replacing the UH-34.
At 07:25 3/12 artillery took over the bombardment of LZ Crow and at 07:45 20 CH-46s of HMM-164 and HMM-265 began landing 3/4 Marines on LZ Crow. While the marines met no initial resistance, LZ Crow proved to be too small for the operation. Two CH-46s from HMM-164 collided and crashed while a third CH-46 from HMM-265 hit a tree and crashed.
A CH-46 succeeded in extracting part of the force, then a USAF F-4 Phantom was shot down. Another CH-46 came and extracted more of the force, but it was hit by antiaircraft fire and crashed from a height of 100 feet (30 m). The PAVN fired on the survivors in the wreckage killing many of them.
For South Vietnam, several hundred Special Forces and indigenous CIDG soldiers were believed to have been killed, as well as about 183 civilians who perished in Major Bucher's crash. [2]: 15 The total number of PAVN casualties is unknown, but the U.S. military claimed to have killed roughly 345 enemy soldiers.
CH-46s evacuated the Battalion Landing Team by 07:00 and after an anxious wait a lone CH-46 Swift 2-2 of HMM-164 [10]: 200 arrived to evacuate Kean and the ten remaining men of the Marine Security Guards, this last helicopter took off at 07:53 on 30 April and landed on USS Okinawa at 08:30. [22]: 8
[46] 3 June. 74 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard the USS Frank E. Evans died in a collision with the Royal Australian Navy light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne during an exercise in the South China Sea. [47] 5 June. U.S. aircraft bomb North Vietnam for the first time since the bombing halt in retaliation for the shootdown of a U.S. reconnaissance plane.
On 10 June the third phase began with an intensive artillery and air bombardment of eastern Go Noi Island following which the 1/1 Marine advanced east from the railroad berm and 22 CH-46s deployed the 2/1 Marines and the ROKMC 1st Battalion into landing zones on the southeast of Go Noi Island and they began to sweep north. On 11 June the ROKMC ...
Deaths Perpetrator Siege of Vijaya during the Champa–Đại Việt War (1471) 1471 Modern day An Nhơn, Bình Định province: 60,000 killed during the war, 40,000 city dwellers were executed in the aftermaths according to the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư: Đại Việt army under king Lê Thánh Tông: 1509 Massacre against Chams: 1509 ...