At Camp Evans, 11 miles north of Hue, 24 U.S. military personnel die when a U.S. Army CH-47 helicopter collides with an American C-7 Caribou transport aircraft. All aboard both aircrafts perished. Meanwhile, U.S. planes severed roads in more than 20 places, destroying over 75 supply vehicles in the heaviest raids over North Vietnam since July 2.
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Oct 3, 1968:
Twenty-four die in Army helicopter accident
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This Week in History, Oct 3 - Oct 9
- Oct 03, 1967
- Operation Wallowa commences
- Oct 03, 1968
- Twenty-four die in Army helicopter accident
- Oct 04, 1964
- Johnson orders the commencement of Oplan 34A raids
- Oct 04, 1966
- Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War
- Oct 05, 1963
- South Vietnamese generals plan coup
- Oct 05, 1964
- President Johnson under fire from his own party
- Oct 06, 1967
- U.S. jets strike targets in North Vietnam
- Oct 06, 1970
- South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia
- Oct 07, 1969
- Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort
- Oct 07, 1970
- Nixon announces a new peace proposal
- Oct 08, 1968
- U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords
- Oct 08, 1970
- Communists reject Nixon's peace proposal
- Oct 08, 1972
- Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks
- Oct 09, 1969
- The National Guard breaks up protests at home
- Oct 09, 1970
- Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia.
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