NVA troops easily overran the SVN army forces located in I CORPS in Northern South Vietnam. In early April 1972, North Vietnamese army (NVA) forces began a land campaign and invaded South Vietnam (SVN), crossing the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two countries, with significant numbers of regular NVA troops and tanks.
Note: Operation Pocket Money was the naval mining of the North Vietnam coast and harbors and Operation Linebacker 1 tasked Navy ships with surface action group bombardment from the sea on North Vietnamese costal defense sites and military targets and Operation Linebacker 2 was the re-activation of significant Air Force and Navy air bombing campaigns against North Vietnam. Navy admiral to have died in the Vietnam War. The significance of this accident was later revealed in the events and activities of that evening, May 8, 1972, when Operation Pocket Money (to October 10, 1972) and Operation Linebacker 1 (to October 23, 1972) were in their initial phases of execution on the direct orders of then President Nixon. The helo crew and the aviation staff officer were able to escape and were rescued. Leaver, Jr., USN, Surface Operations Officer. Killed in the accident were Rear Admiral Robinson, Capt. The helo, with Admiral Robinson, three members of his staff and the helo crew aboard, on approach to the Providence, suffered an operational malfunction, crashing into the fantail of the Providence and fell overboard into the Gulf.
The helo was returning from a conference aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV 43) where senior officers met with the Commander of the US 7 th Fleet and others at the onset of a major escalation of the Vietnam War. Robinson, USN, the Commander (i.e., CTG) of various naval surface ships afloat constituting task groups TG70.8 and TG77.7. Navy’s guided missile light cruiser USS Providence (CLG 6), flagship of Rear Adm. Navy SH-3 Sea King helicopter was making its approach to the U.S. Fifty-years ago, in the Gulf of Tonkin, during the evening of May 8, 1972, offshore North Vietnam, a U.S.
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