page_title: 1967 in the Vietnam War
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1967 in the Vietnam War / April
caption_attribution_description: English: The 1st Infantry Division jungle clearing team moves into the woods to destroy a VC bunker complex during Operation Manhattan, conducted NW of Saigon.
context_page_description: 2 January
  Operation Bolo was a successful combat ruse by the United States Air Force that resulted in the USAF shooting down seven Vietnam People's Air Force MiG-21 interceptors.
  North Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Van Dong signaled in an interview with New York Times correspondent Harrison Salisbury that his nation would begin direct peace talks with the United States if the U.S. maintained an unconditional halt to American bombing, a statement confirmed by President Ho Chi Minh two weeks later.
  6 January
  In the Third Battle of Nakhang Royal Lao Army forces with U.S. air support repulsed a PAVN attack on Lima Site 36 at Na Khang. The PAVN lost an estimated 250 killed and the RLA lost nine killed.
  6–15 January
  Operation Deckhouse Five was conducted by the United States Marine Corps and South Vietnamese Marine Corps forces along the Mekong River Delta. The operation was notable in that it was a sizable, combined USMC and Vietnamese Marine amphibious operation and it was the last Special Landing Force amphibious landing to take place beyond the boundaries of I Corps. The operation resulted in 21 Viet Cong, seven Marines and one ARVN killed.
  8–28 January
context_section_description: 4 April
  In a speech titled Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, his strongest antiwar declaration up to that time, Martin Luther King, Jr. denounced U.S. involvement in Vietnam in a gathering at the Riverside Church in New York City.
  6 April
  A reinforced PAVN regiment briefly overruns Quảng Trị, freeing 200 PAVN/VC prisoners from a prison before withdrawing from the city.
  6 April – 11 October
  Operation Francis Marion was conducted by the 4th Infantry Division, 173rd Airborne Brigade, ARVN 23rd Division and the 42nd Regiment, 22nd Division in Pleiku, Darlac and the Kon Tum Provinces. The operation resulted in 1,530 PAVN, 300 U.S. and 100 ARVN killed.
  7–22 April
  Operation Lejeune was conducted by the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division in Đức Phổ District. The operation resulted in 176 VC killed and 127 captured.
  11 April
  Thailand allowed U.S. B-52 bombers to begin flying bombing missions over Vietnam from Thai bases.
  15 April
  A group of 20 U.S. servicemen marched at the forefront of a parade from New York's Central Park to the United Nations Plaza, behind a banner "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" as part of at least 100,000 protesters in a demonstration organized by the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, marking a new development in which American vets would join the anti-war movement. Six of the veterans would form an organization of the same name after the march. What was described as "the largest peace demonstration in decades" in Manhattan lasted for four hours.
  Forty-one ARVN soldiers were killed and 50 seriously wounded in the Binh Dinh Province when two USAF jets accidentally bombed them.
  20 April – 17 May
  Operation Prairie IV was conducted by the 3rd Marine Division in the area around Con Thien known as Leatherneck Square.
  20 April - September 1967
  Task Force Oregon is formed from three separate U.S. infantry brigades and an armored cavalry regiment. In September the Task Force was redesignated as the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal).
  21 April – 16 May
  Operation Union was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment to engage the PAVN 2nd Division. The operation resulted in 865 PAVN killed and 110 Marines killed and two missing.
  22 April – 31 July
  Operation Baker was a security operation conducted by the U.S. 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division in the Đức Phổ District. The operation resulted in 1,339 PAVN/VC and 97 U.S. killed.
  23 April – 7 June
  Operation Manhattan was conducted by the 1st and 2nd Brigades, 25th Infantry Division and the 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the Ho Bo Woods/Bến Củi area. The operation resulted in 74 VC killed.
  24 April – 11 May
  The Hill Fights was a battle between the PAVN and U.S. Marines on Hills 881 North, 881 South and 861 north of Khe Sanh Combat Base. The operation resulted in 940 PAVN and 155 Marines killed.
  28 April
  COMUSMACV General William Westmoreland addresses a joint session of the United States Congress.
  World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to take the oath of induction into the U.S. Army after reporting as scheduled to an induction center in Houston, Texas. Ali was stripped of his boxing title on the same day by the World Boxing Association, and would not be allowed to fight for the title again until 1970.On 20 June Ali would be convicted of draft evasion, fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison, but the conviction would be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court on 28 June.
  28 April – 12 May
  Operation Beaver Cage was conducted by the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines against VC bases in the Que Son Valley. The operation resulted in 181 VC killed and 66 captured and 55 Marines killed.
  April
  Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group commenced Operation Daniel Boone, a cross-border reconnaissance effort in Cambodia.
caption: Jungle clearing during Operation Manhattan
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