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	Koh Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Koh Tang or Tang Island, is an island approximately 60 miles southwest off the coast of Cambodia in the Gulf of Thailand.
		The crew of the merchant vessel were not on the island as U.S. Intelligence had reported but had been transferred from the ship to the nearby Cambodian port town of Sihanoukville, also known as Kampong Saom.
		The seizure of the vessel by Khmer Rouge forces and subsequent assault on Koh Tang became known as the Mayagüez Incident.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koh_Tang (191 words)

	KOH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		KOH is used as an anisotropic etchant for silicon in MEMS fabrication.
		Ras Koh, a foothill in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan
		Shib Koh, a district in Farah Province, Afghanistan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/KOH (318 words)

	Bayon Pearnik - Cambodia - Sihanoukville - Nearby Attractions
		Koh Rong Samlem is the best island to head towards on a day trip (takes 2 hours to get there), it has nine decent beaches including some sheltered ones on its north side near to Koh Kon.
		Koh Chraloh is nothing more than a rock but does have quite a bit of coral and fish.
		Not only that, Koh Prins has two shipwrecks located less than 30m down on its northwest side while Koh Tang was the site of a battle between the US and Khmer Rouge forces in 1975, evidence of which can still be found.
	www.bayonpearnik.com /Cambodia/Sihanoukville/NearbyAttractions.html (694 words)

	JACQUES
		U.S. intelligence had observed a cove with considerable activity on the island of Koh Tang, a small five-mile long island about 35 miles off the coast of Cambodia southwest of the city of Sihanoukville (Kampong Saom), and believed that some of the crew might be held there.
		In a bitter irony unknown to the Marines on Koh Tang until after their harrowing escape back to the US aircraft carrier Coral Sea on the morning of May 16, the crew of the Mayageuz had been released by their captors onto a Thai fishing boat several hours before the attack had commenced.
		While post-battle American estimates of the size of the KR force on Koh Tang range as high as 200 men, Run insists there were no more than forty fighters on the island during the operation.
	www.100megsfree2.com /jjscherr/scherr/jamesjacques.htm (3391 words)

	Remembering Fellow Texans \|\| Antonio Ramos Sandoval
		Koh Tang Island is 5 miles long running north to south and is nearly a mile wide at its broadest point.
		Finally, the last of the total force of 231 Marines, Airmen and Sailors who landed on Koh Tang Island were withdrawn by helicopter at 2000 hours in one of the most dramatic wartime rescues ever conducted.
		During the 1997 JTFFA trip to Koh Tang Island, the team interviewed a former Khmer Rouge medic, Rot Leng, who was on the island during the Marine Assault.
	www.faraway-soclose.org /tx/bios/s02.html (3241 words)

	The VVA Veteran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From the battle on Koh Tang, 18 men remain listed as missing and unaccounted-for or as killed in action/body not recovered (KIA/BNR), a challenge that remains for the 160 men and women assigned to Joint Task Force-Full Accounting at Camp Smith in Hawaii.
		Though the eighteen MIAs on Koh Tang--fourteen Marines, two Air Force, and two Navy personnel--were engaged in the same battle, they are segregated into four reference cases because of the nature of their loss scenarios.
		The seventeen on Koh Tang were listed as missing and unaccounted-for, and the twenty-three who died in the helicopter crash in Thailand were listed as non-battle deaths.
	www.vva.org /TheVeteran/1999_11/lostmen.htm (993 words)

	Cambodia fishing & diving trips from Sihanoukville
		Koh Pos or snake island is the closest island off Victory beach but good snorkeling is koh Koang Kang or (Koh Tas), about and hour away.
		Koh Tang is interesting as it was involved in the US /Khmer Rouge incidents on May 1975 and worth a look.
		The new bridge over the Koh Kong River has been finished April 4th thanks to the Japanese but you still have to go over 4 rivers by ferry which is a good break from sitting in the mini bus for the 5-6 hour drive.
	www.asiatradingonline.com /cambodiafishing.htm (1064 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Opinion
		The Mayaguez Incident was a brief but deadly military battle May 15, 1975, between an American assault force comprised largely of Marines and a fanatical Khmer Rouge unit on Koh Tang Island, off the southwest coast of Cambodia.
		This U.S. show of force and the bombing of a Cambodian military base on the mainland where the crew was being held forced the Khmer Rouge to release the civilian crew, and the order was given to withdraw from Koh Tang.
		I recalled the sacrifice and gallantry displayed on Koh Tang by all who died there, and the special dedication of the Lost Fire Team.
	desmoinesregister.com /opinion/stories/c5917686/21292202.html (907 words)

	RETAKING THE MAYAGUEZ - The final battle of the Vietnam War
		Meanwhile, on Koh Tang, Capt. Charles Miller, master of the Mayaguez, was having trouble convincing his captors his ship carried neither weapons nor spy gear.
		The photo, one of only two known to have been taken on Koh Tang island, is by Lt. Ronald Rand, an AAVS combat photographer.
		After conferring with Bingo Shoes 6, the Marine commander on Koh Tang, Undorf marked off the friendly forces' territory with smoke rockets and directed Spectre and the fighters against targets on the rest of the island.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/3227/maya.htm (4572 words)

	"History Channel show on SS Mayaguez features Band alum"
		Once again he'll make a journey back to Koh Tang, an island off the coast of Cambodia, one he's made many times in his mind, and shared verbally with others.
		In 1975, Hoffman was one of a contingent of Marines dispatched to rescue the 41-member crew of the SS Mayaguez.
		Hoffman, who was on the second helicopter into the Koh Tang, and left on the next to last helicopter out, experienced the whole incident.
	www.purdue.edu /Bands/members/alumni/profiles/hoffman.htm (886 words)

	Where's Joseph???
		The Marines had been told that Koh Tang was a sparsely populated fishing village, and that maybe twenty or so "irregular militia" could be expected.
		Koh Tang has no food, other than what the enemy carries on their backs.
		When the four vets went back to Koh Tang in 2000, they discovered just how awesome the firepower to try to save their butts was.
	www.michaelshumidor.com /joseph.html (5686 words)

	Mayaguez Background
		The Mayaguez, a containerized cargo vessel, was seized and its crew of forty taken into custody and kept on Koh Tang Island in the Gulf of Thailand.
		ARRS were to land on Koh Tang and drop off Marines to secure the island and rescue any Mayaguez crewmen on shore.
		The Marines on Koh Tang were still under fire and the order was given to withdraw.
	www.jollygreen.org /40thhist/Mygback.html (643 words)

	Final Battle - The Mayaguez Rescue Operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The seizure of the SS Mayaguez was seen by the USA as an act of piracy, and the US President, Gerald Ford, demanded the immediate release of the 39 sailors and their vessel by the Khmer Rouge.
		Both the Marines and the Security Police were to be transported to Koh Tang in 16 Sikorsky CH-53Cs from the 40th ARRS and 21st SOS, based at Nakhon Phanom in North-Eastern Thailand.
		In an effort to cut off Koh Tang from the Cambodian mainland, several Khmer Rouge patrol boats were sunk by US aircraft.
	aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk /waf/aa-eastasia/cambodia/cam-maya1.htm (1350 words)

	Khmer Islands - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		koh s'dach is being occupied right now by khmer people.
		koh tang was an island where a dozen u.s.
		koh ses i believe is cambodia's largest island right now.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5287 (833 words)

	Richard Vandegeer, Second Lieutenant, United States Air Force
		His work on the case included supervising archaeological digs on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia, where Vandegeer's helicopter crashed on May 15, 1975, in the last combat action of the Vietnam War.
		Byrd said the seven water and land recovery operations on Koh Tang for remains from Vandegeer's helicopter started in 1991 and yielded a large number of "commingled" remains.
		The SS Mayaguez was captured by Khmer Rouge in gunboats on May 12, 1975, in the Gulf of Thailand off the coast of Cambodia and taken to Koh Tang, an island.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rvandegeer.htm (2574 words)

	Mission Impossible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This was the scene on Koh Tang 25 years ago, when US Marines landed on the island to rescue the 39-member crew of a merchant marine ship called the Mayaguez, seized by Khmer Rouge forces on May 12, 1975.
		He believed US commanders must have known the crew was not on Koh Tang during the fighting, but was released and returned to safety.
		Mao Ran returned to Koh Tang in January for the first time since the Mayaguez battle to help an American MIA team that was searching for the remains of Marines he had help kill 25 years ago.
	www.camnet.com.kh /cambodia.daily/selected_features/mayaguez (2516 words)

	Mayaquez and National Security Decision Making in Crisis
		The next day the ship and its crew were moved to Koh Tang, a heavily fortified island located 30 miles from the Cambodian mainland.
		Cambodian gunboats were maneuvering between Koh Tang and the mainland.
		Once the crew of the Mayaguez was secure, the focus shifted to withdrawal of forces from Koh Tang and more retaliatory air strikes against the Cambodian mainland.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1997/Robinson.htm (3244 words)

	USS Badger 1071"dot"org - The Mayaguez Incident
		Its crew was loaded aboard a Thai fishing boat and was taken first to Koh Tang, then to the mainland city of Kompong Song, then to Rong Sam Lem Island.
		U.S.intelligence had observed a cove with considerable activity on the Island of Koh Tang, a small 4.5 mile long island about 35 miles off the coast of Cambodia southwest of the city of Sihanoukvulle (Kampong Saom), and believed that some of the crew might be held there.
		The vessel was taken to Koh [island] Tang.
	ussbadger-1071.org /menus/mayaguez.htm (1695 words)

	Mayaguez goat screw: MARINE CORPS ad hoc fubar 18 years before Black Hawk Down! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The battle for Koh Tang is part of an international incident known as the Mayaguez Crisis.
		The marines on Koh Tang are still encountering heavy resistance and Lt. Cicere's 3rd platoon is isolated and extremely vulnerable.
		Twenty years later these men would scream in outrage at Koh Tang being done all over again in broad daylight with unarmored mc helicopters and narrowly missing disaster by a missile to rescue USAF Cpt Scott O'Grady, and warn that "luck cannot be counted on".
	www.combatreform.com /kohtang.htm (10433 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		THE former platoon commander of Khmer Rouge forces that repulsed the May 15, 1975, US Marine assault on the offshore island Koh Tang has told the Post that at least one US Marine was discovered at large on the island 10 days after the American withdrawal and subsequently killed.
		The revelation is the most concrete evidence to date that US Marines were abandoned on Koh Tang during the confusion of the American withdrawal from a battle in which 18 US servicemen remain officially "unaccountable" 25 years later.
		Ran, who is now a Commune Chief in rural Kampong Speu, denies any knowledge of surviving servicemen on Koh Tang other than the one whose killing he witnessed.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter1/in060600maya.html (550 words)

	Koh Tang Beach Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I am a Veteran of the Siagon "Frequent Wind" Evacuation, as well as a part of the assault force of Koh Tang island May 15, 1975, for what was to be a rescue of the crew of the SeaLand container ship SS Mayaguez.
		John Guilmartin, author of "A Very Short War, The Mayaguez Incident", has issued a critique of another book on the operation, "The Last Battle", for the benefit of the The Koh Tang Beach Club.
		The views expressed by Dr. Guilmartin are his own, and do not necessarily reflect the the opinon of the The Koh Tang Beach Club members, or the members of TF-5.
	www.kohtang.com /OldWeb (403 words)

	Bio, Hall, Gary L.
		On May 15, 1975, the Marines attacked tiny Koh Tang island, where the Mayaguez crew was mistakenly believed to be held.
		Hargrove was part of the second wave of Marines to land on Koh Tang.
		The Last Battle describes how one Marine was captured on Koh Tang the day after the battle, and executed on the spot.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/h/h173.htm (3751 words)

	40197505
		Khmer Rouge gunboats fire on and board SS Mayaguez, a containerized cargo ship seized near Koh Tang Island in the Gulf of Thailand.
		JG 11 came back to Koh Tang from the carrier, but all Marines/crewmembers had been extracted from that side of the island.
		JG 44 departed for the Holt, arriving @ 1905 - offloaded and returned to Koh Tang and another landing in the LZ.
	www.jollygreen.org /40thhist/40197505.html (1675 words)

	AII POW-MIA - InterNetwork
		DASD expressed appreciation for LTG Sareoun's and the POW/MIA Committee's assistance in finding former Khmer Rouge members who were present on Koh Tang during the Mayaguez incident.
		The current JFA Investigation Element in Koh Tang is a direct result of Cambodian cooperation.
		Koh Tang was the site of the 1975 Mayaguez incident in which 2 USAF, 2 USN and 14 USMC personnel casualties occurred during rescue operations.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter1/in021200.html (2313 words)

	SS Mayaguez Incident and Rescue Department of Defense Files
		Later in the morning the Mayaguez steamed to Koh Tang Island under the control of her captors.
		The US military operation to recover the SS Mayaguez and her crew consisted of a number of related actions including the reboarding of the Mayaguez, air strikes against military targets on the Cambodian mainland; and insertion of US Marine Corps forces on Koh Tang Island to search for the crew of the Mayaguez.
		This monograph examines the latter action-operations relating to the insertion and recovery of Marines at Koh Tang Island.
	www.paperlessarchives.com /ss_mayaguez_.html (653 words)

	Joseph Nelson Hargrove
		U.S. intelligence said the crew was taken to the island of Koh Tang.
		The Marine officers were told to expect 14 to 40 lightly armed pirates on Koh Tang Island.
		They are the last names on the Vietnam War Memorial; 15 men who died in a battle waged weeks after the war had ended, killed on the beaches of Koh Tang during an attempt to rescue the crew of a captured American merchant ship, the S.S. Mayaguez.
	www.always-online.com /owens/joseph.htm (4087 words)

	The Mayaguez Operation
		He said that this tiny island was occupied presently by the Khmer Rouge regime but this place is also claimed to be a part of both Vietnam and Thailand.
		In the aftermath of this operation Staff Sergeant Aucoin and I learned that the crew of the SS Mayaguez was never held captive on the island of Koh Tang as intelligence had reported.
		We then learned that at the time of our heloborne assault on the island of Koh Tang the crew of the SS Mayaguez had already been released by the Khmer Rouge regime.
	journals.aol.com /bradleylasiii/CommandDesertion/entries/209 (1933 words)

	Bio, Garcia, Andres
		The men lost in the tragic rescue attempt on Tang Island off the coast of Cambodia on May 15, 1975, were the last U.S. combat casualties in Southeast Asia, just a month and a half after the official end of the war in neighboring Vietnam.
		Robert Jones, head of the Pentagon office in charge of accounting for missing American service members, said in an interview last week that nine sets of remains from the Mayaguez incident were in the final stage of identifications, and that he believed ``another two or three'' were approaching the final stage.
		The six to be disclosed this week are among 13 U.S. servicemen who were lost when the CH-53 helicopter in which they were riding was hit by a rocket from communist Khmer Rouge troops as it approached the island.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/g/g115.htm (2745 words)

	September 2000 - Henninger Partners With Discovery.com on Webcast - iCOM Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Viewers asked questions about the operation and the making of the film, which was shot on location on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia.
		The joint U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps attack on Koh Tang at the close of the war in Southeast Asia claimed 41 lives.
		The crisis went from bad to worse as the mission shifted to the rescue of the Marines still trapped on Koh Tang.
	www.icommag.com /september-2000/september-2000-page-1.html (1003 words)

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