Marine Corps aviation involvement in Vietnam began on Palm Sunday 1962, when a squadron of UH-34 helicopters landed at Soc Trang in the Delta. The squadron was Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 362 (HMM-362), commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Archie J. Clapp.

Events in the Tonkin Gulf in August 1964 generated a massive buildup of American forces in South Vietnam and offshore. The Marines settled into what became at that time America’s longest war. Marine fixed-wing aircraft—A-4 Skyhawks, A-6 Intruders, F-8 Crusaders and F-4 Phantoms—eventually flew from Chu Lai because of overcrowding at the U ...

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 September 1973.

At the beginning of 1964 the United States had 388 aircraft in Vietnam including 248 helicopters, too few to accommodate the expanding advisory effort and increasing Vietnamese Army operations. By the end of September 1964, there was in South Vietnam a total of 406 Army aviation aircraft supporting the Army of the Republic of Vietnam as follows:

The U.S. lost two aircraft to anti-aircraft fire, Lieutenant Richard Sather was killed in his A-1 Skyraider while Lieutenant (junior grade) Everett Alvarez's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down and he became the first U.S. Navy Prisoner of War being held until 12 February 1973. [70]

The USAF detached aircraft and crews from their home bases to various airfields in South Vietnam; 22 squadrons from PACAF contributed the main tactical transport force supplemented by aircraft from five Stateside Wings.

2018年7月24日 · On August 5, 1964, aircraft from the USS Constellation and Ticonderoga struck the North Vietnamese fuel depot at Vinh and three enemy PT boat bases. Designated Operation Pierce Arrow, the strikes were in retaliation for PT boat attacks on U.S. naval forces operating off North Vietnam on August 2 and an alleged attack that never did happen on ...

2019年8月16日 · Aircraft lost by year: 1964 (0) [Note: our original records indicated an F-105 was lost in 1964; however, notes found later indicated that the rear fuselage from another F-105 was used to rebuild that aircraft, and it continued to fly with its original serial number.

November 1 – Viet Cong infiltrators stage a mortar attack on Bien Hoa Air Base in South Vietnam, destroying five U.S. Air Force B-57 Canberra bombers, a U.S. Air Force HH-43F helicopter, and four Republic of Vietnam Air Force A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft, and damaging 15 B …

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