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The last battle: the Mayaguez incident and the end of the Vietnam war

Number 18610
Subject Vietnam
Source Avalon Publishing Group (New York)
State NY
Year 2001
Publication Date June
Summary Wetterhahn's book tells "the complete story of the last military contest of the Vietnam war" - the hijacking and the release of the U.S. merchant ship, S.S. Mayaguez. The author is the first to report that three missing American Marines inadvertently left behind by their peers, whose fate was unknown so far, were eventually captured and executed. The book examines some of the government blunders in the Vietnam war.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 4
Keywords BOOK;veterans;military;Pentagon;Marine Corps;navy
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