page_title: Camp Evans (Vietnam)
section_title: 1968
hierarchical_section_title: Camp Evans (Vietnam) / History / 1968
caption_attribution_description: English: One of the many damaged 1st Cavalry helicopters damaged as a direct result of a NVA rocket on the 1st Cavalry ammo point.
context_page_description: Camp Evans is a former U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps base northwest of Huế in central Vietnam.
context_section_description: In January 1968 Camp Evans was taken over by the 1st Cavalry Division.
  On the night of 19 May 1968 the ammunition dump at Camp Evans was hit by People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rockets and exploded causing a chain reaction and fire that lasted more than 12 hours and damaged or destroyed 124 aircraft rendering the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division combat ineffective for a week until replacement aircraft arrived.
  On 3 October 1968 a USAF C-7 Caribou (#63-9753) that had just taken off from the Camp Evans airstrip collided with a 1st Cavalry Boeing CH-47 Chinook (#66-19041) resulting in the death of all 24 passengers and crew on both aircraft.
caption: 1st Cavalry Division UH-1 damaged in the rocket attack on Camp Evans on 19 May 1968
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