SAC B-52s are used for the first time in Vietnam, when 28 aircraft strike Viet Cong targets near Saigon.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3