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The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War. (Book Reviews).-(book review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online - approximately 508 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War. By Ralph Wetterhahn. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Index. Pp. ix, 384. $27.00 ISBN 0-7867-0858-1.

On May 12, 1975, Khmer Rouge forces seized the Mayaguez, a U.S. merchant ship in...

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...steaming international waters. This event precipitated a rescue operation that resulted in the deaths of forty-one American and twenty-five Khmer troops. Ironically, just as the rescue commenced,...

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