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On 15 July 1966 in the Vietnam War during Operation Hastings, two CH-46As of HMM-164 collided at Landing Zone Crow while another, crashed into a tree avoiding the first two, resulting in 2 Marines killed. Another CH-46 of HMM-265 was shot down at the LZ later that day resulting in a further 13 Marine deaths. [80]
By 02:15 on 30 April one CH-46 and one CH-53 were landing at the embassy every 10 minutes. At this time, the embassy indicated that another 19 lifts would complete the evacuation. [ 10 ] : 199 At that time Kean estimated that there were still some 850 non-American evacuees and 225 Americans (including the Marines), and Martin told Kean to do ...
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.
The Vietnam War devastated the young men and women of that generation. In addition to the 58,000 plus killed, over 75,000 were severely disabled, meaning that they had been incapacitated, facing ...
Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. The operation was a qualified success in that it pushed the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces back across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As the PAVN clearly did not feel constrained by the "demilitarized" nature of the DMZ, U.S. military leadership ordered a steady ...
Yott, who lives in Bath, is combining those two interests to put together a compilation of personal stories from Vietnam War veterans in advance of the 50th anniversary of the 1975 end of the ...
The attack left two Marines and one Navy Corpsman killed in action with another 91 wounded. Seventeen VC were killed during the battle along with four wounded who were taken prisoner. [4] MMAF saw the arrival of the first CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters in South Vietnam when HMM-164 arrived on 8 March 1966 with 27 aircraft from the USS Valley Forge.
There were about 11,846 U.S helicopters that served in the Vietnam War. The U.S records show 5,607 helicopter losses. [3] In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft (3,744 planes, [4] 5,607 helicopters [3] and about 1,000 UAVs. [1] [5] South Vietnam lost 1,018 aircraft and helicopters from January 1964 to ...