End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia

by Malcolm Muir, Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.) (Editor)

Overview

President Nixon with his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, developed the Paris Agreement Treaty that offered the United States “peace and honor "by bringing home American prisoners of war and ending combat operations for the U.S. armed forces.  During this time frame, political scandals were underway around Nixon’s Watergate affair that involved Nixon’s direction of illegal activities and his efforts to cover up those crimes that led to Nixon’s resignation and Gerald Ford resuming title as President of the United States (POTUS).  Now, the U.S. Navy was embarking on a large number of refugees and positioning itself towards the Philippines and Guam.  The unexpected number of refugees that could pose a potential security concern worried the Navy and they made arrangements to offload many of them to both Guam and the Philippines.  Medical attention was also provided to many of these refugees. You will also read about the recovery of the SS Mayaguez by the Henry B. Wilson guided missile destroyer that was able to intercept the Mayaguez ship as it entered into international waters. This final volume within the series, chronicles how, as the decades-long struggle in Southeast Asia came to a climax in the spring of 1975, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps saved thousands of U.S. citizens and pro-American Vietnamese and Cambodians from the victorious Communist forces. 

Related products:
Other volumes within The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War series include:
Approaching the Storm: Conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 (ePub ISBN: 9780160928604)
Nixon's Trident: Naval Power in Southeast Asia, 1968-1972  (ePub ISBN: 9780160928697)
The Battle Behind Bars: Navy and Marine POWs in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN:9780160928635)
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon (ePub ISBN: 9780160928666)
Combat at Close Quarters: Warfare on the Rivers and Canals of Vietnam (ePub ISBN: 978016095556)
Knowing the Enemy: Naval Intelligence in Southeast Asia (ePub ISBN:9780160937361)
Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War (ePub ISBN: 978016095543)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780160955570
Publisher:	United States Dept. of Defense
Publication date:	09/16/2019
Series:	The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	92
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Malcolm Muir, Jr., a military historian who received his degrees from Emory (Georgia), Florida State, and Ohio State universities, served on the faculty of the Virginia Military Institute from 2003 to his retirement in 2011. Having taught at Austin Peay State University for 25 years prior to 2003, he also held the Secretary of the Navy’s Research Chair in Naval History and visiting positions at the U.S. Military Academy and the Air War College. Among his publications are several books, including Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the U.S. Navy, 1945–1975 (Washington, 1996), recipient of the North American Society for Oceanic History’s John Lyman Book Award in 1997.

Table of Contents

Introduction 
The Collapse in I and II Corps 
The Final Curtain in Cambodia 
Preparations for the Saigon Evacuation 
The Exodus Begins 
Refugees at Sea 
Seaborne Evacuation from Vietnam 
Passage to the Philippines 
Maritime Refugees 
Succor in the Philippines and Guam 
The Recovery of SS Mayaguez 
The Battle for Koh Tang