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Department of Defense After Action Report US Military Operations SS Mayaguez/Kaoh Tang Island May 12–15, 1975, GAO Review and Congressional Hearings Part One; Part Two Archived 2017-02-03 at the Wayback Machine; Commander in Chief Pacific Command History 1975, Appendix VI, The SS Mayaguez Incident Archived 2016-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
SS Mayaguez was a U.S.-flagged container ship that is best known for its 12 May 1975 seizure by Khmer Rouge forces of Cambodia, which resulted in a confrontation with the United States at the close of the Vietnam War.
The United States Department of State protested that North Vietnam had violated the 1973 Paris Peace Accords by infiltrating 160,000 soldiers and 400 armored vehicles into South Vietnam. North Vietnam had improved the Ho Chi Minh trail, now a network of all-weather roads, through Cambodia and Laos and expanded their armament stockpiles. [6]: 138
Ngô Văn Quyền (HQ-718) was still active and in good condition when South Vietnam fell in 1975, she was taken into the Vietnam People's Navy and served for many more years. A few other Point-class ships reportedly participated in a final defense of Saigon, firing at North Vietnamese troops from the Saigon River in April 1975. Some may have ...
The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. This decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War .
List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1975 Ship State Description RVNS Keo Ngua Republic of Vietnam Navy: Vietnam War: The Phu Du-class motor gunboat was scuttled at the conclusion of the war to prevent capture . [16] Suntory United States: The motor vessel was destroyed by fire in Day Harbor on the coast of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. [4]
USS Belknap (DLG-26/CG-26), named for Rear Admirals George E. Belknap (1832–1903) and his son Reginald Rowan Belknap (1871–1959), was the lead ship of her class of guided missile cruisers in the United States Navy.
When the ship pulled out of port to continue to Southeast Asia, another 53 sailors were missing. [4]: 112–113 In January 1972 with the ship off Vietnam, Secretary of the Navy John Chafee visited the Coral Sea. SOS activists on board held a demonstration and presented the Navy Secretary with a petition which 36 of them had signed. [41]