商品簡介
On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon, Khmer Rouge naval forces seized the S.S. Mayaguez 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, liberate her crew, and demonstrate U.S. strength and resolve in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Guilmartin, a former air rescue helicopter pilot stationed in Thailand, provides a unique and compelling account of the Mayaguez–Koh Tang crisis, shedding new light on the politics, tactics, orders, high-level decision makers, and the fighting men entangled in a crucial military action that nearly ended in disaster for U.S. forces.
作者簡介
John F. Guilmartin Jr., professor of history at the Ohio State University, flew 119 combat missions over Southeast Asia as an Air Force helicopter pilot.
