On May 10, 1996, during Exercise Purple Star – a large-scale joint UK–US military exercise – two helicopters collided over Camp Lejeune, resulting in the deaths of 14 American soldiers.
Despite the scale and tactical value of the exercise, which involved 380,000 US and 15,000 UK personnel – marking the largest deployment since the First Gulf War at the time – it was ultimately overshadowed by the tragedy that unfolded.
BFBS Forces News archive researcher Richard White, who spent 25 years in the Royal Marines, was deployed on Exercise Purple Star.
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