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[7]: 66 The 9th Marine Regiment had been the first U.S. ground combat force committed to the Vietnam War in 1965, but in May 1975 only a few of the officers and non-commissioned officers from BLT 2/9 had seen combat in Vietnam. [7]: 65–66
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 Russian-American Company ship (also spelled Behring; formerly Atahualpa, an American maritime fur trade vessel) wrecked at Waimea Bay, Oahu. [19] [7] USS Carbonero United States Navy: 27 April 1975 A Balao-class submarine sunk as a target. Carrier Dove United States: 21 November 1921 A schooner that struck a reef off Molokai. Carthaginian II
South China Sea - crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees from a small craft, April 1975. The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon to the People's Army of Vietnam and the subsequent evacuation of more than 130,000 Vietnamese closely associated with the United States or the ...
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]
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]
South Vietnam surrendered to the North on 30 April 1975. On 12 to 14 May 1975, Coral Sea participated with other Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps forces in the Mayaguez incident, the recovery of the U.S. merchant ship SS Mayaguez and her 39 crew, illegally seized on 12 May in international waters by Khmer Rouge gunboats.
USS Peoria (LST-1183) was a Newport-class tank landing ship which replaced the traditional bow door-design tank landing ships (LSTs). The vessel took part in the Vietnam War and Gulf War . The ship was constructed by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego , California and was launched in 1968 and commissioned in 1970.