At two o'clock in the morning on 7 February, mere hours before the Bundy party was scheduled to return to the United States and shortly after the end of a cease-fire to mark the Tet holiday, a company of Vietcong guerrillas launched an attack on a loosely guarded U.S. helicopter base and barracks near Pleiku in the Central Highlands. Eight Americans were killed, 126 were wounded, and ten U.S. aircraft were destroyed.
