A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang (repost)
A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang (Texas A & M University Military History) by John F. Guilmartin Jr.
English | Dec 1995 | ISBN: 0890966656 | 238 Pages | EPUB / PDF | 2 MB / 5 MB
English | Dec 1995 | ISBN: 0890966656 | 238 Pages | EPUB / PDF | 2 MB / 5 MB
On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge naval forces seized the S.S. Mayaguez, an American container ship, off the Cambodian coast in the Gulf of Siam. The swift military response ordered by President Gerald Ford was designed to recapture the Mayaguez, held at anchor off the island of Koh Tang, to liberate her crew, and to demonstrate U.S. strength and resolve in the immediate aftermath of America's most humiliating defeat.
Guilmartin, a former air rescue helicopter pilot stationed in Thailand, provides a unique and compelling account of the MayaguezâKoh Tang crisis, shedding new light on the politics, the tactics, the orders, the high-level decision makers, and the fighting men entangled in a crucial military action that nearly ended in disaster for U.S. forces.
A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang (repost)
