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	Mayaguez - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mayaguez
		Mayaguez lies on the Mona Passage, which links the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, has a deepwater harbour, and is the leading port of the western part of Puerto Rico.
		In the city are the Mayagüez campus of the University of Puerto Rico, with nuclear research capabilities, and an experimental station of the US Department of Agriculture which houses a major collection of tropical plants.
		Mayaguez, PR, USA - El Maui (Airport Code)
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mayaguez (184 words)

	Seized at Sea: Situation Critical - The Story of the Mayaguez Crisis
		The Mayaguez story is one of those terrific opportunities that come along for a filmmaker to tell a powerful and thought-provoking tale filled with fascinating people, real life drama, moving experiences, tragic ironies, and never before seen visuals.
		In a sense, the Mayaguez Incident seemed to be a microcosm of the whole Vietnam War.
		The Mayaguez Incident has touched so many lives, from President Ford to the six Cambodian men who are stationed today on Koh Tang - it's safe to say that now it has touched mine as well.
	www.henninger.com /mayaguez/creative.htm (1316 words)

	SS Mayaguez@Everything2.com
		The Mayaguez is remembered for an incident with Cambodia right after the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War.
		The second was the seizure of the SS Mayaguez by the Khmer Rouge.
		Reaction to the incident in the immediate aftermath was almost uniformly positive, reflecting both genuine enthusiasm on the part of representatives and the fact that it wasn't good politics to criticize the President after he had just made a decision that was popular with the public.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1118392 (3068 words)

	Mayaquez and National Security Decision Making in Crisis
		This paper will show that the history of the rescue of the SS Mayaguez and her crew would be entirely different if Henry Kissinger were taken out of the equation and replaced by a Cyrus Vance or a Dean Rusk.
		The US acted to prevent a repeat of the USS Pueblo incident with North Korea and to make clear to every government in the region that the safety of its sailors and the freedom of the seas for its vessels were matters of great concern.
		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)

	Mayaguez Incident
		The destroyer USS Holt was directed to seize the Mayaguez, while Marines, airlifted and supported by the Air Force, would rescue the crew, at least some of whom were believed to be held on Kho-Tang.
		The Mayaguez incident is no more than a footnote in most histories of the period.
		More books on Mayaguez Incident can be found at Barnes & Noble.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1949.html (1081 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War at Epinions.com
		Mayaguez Incident describes the event that the Cambodian Khmer Rouge forcibly took over an American Cargo Ship, the Mayaguez, sailing in international waters just after the fall of Saigon.
		The book detailed the Mayaguez incident, vividly described the events that unfolded from both the country leaders' perspective as well as the soldiers fighting.
		The last third of the book talked about the author's effort to find out what happened to these three marines and to locate their remains through his journey to the island where the fighting took place and his interviews with the Khmer Rouge leader who led the fight against the Marines.
	www.epinions.com /content_134706073220 (647 words)

	HALL, GARY LEE Compiled by Task Force Omega Inc
		Shortly before the Mayaguez entered normal international waters, the Cambodian government arbitrarily claimed additional territorial waters extending 90 miles into the Gulf of Thailand instead of the standard 3-mile limit.
		On 15 May 1975, the Marines assigned to Operation Mayaguez arrived at the staging area at 0230 hours and were lifting off the ground by 0415 hours in 8 Air Force HH53A Super Jolly Green Giant helicopters.
		By the time Operation Mayaguez was over, 3 helicopters had been shot down, 6 received severe damage, 3 others were heavily damaged and only one was still flyable.
	www.taskforceomegainc.org /h173.html (3342 words)

	POW/MIA_Hargrove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shortly before the Mayaguez entered normal international waters, the Cambodian government arbitrarily claimed additional territorial waters extending 90 miles into the Gulf of Thailand instead of the standard 3-mile limit.
		On 15 May 1975, the Marines assigned to Operation Mayaguez arrived at the staging area at 0230 hours and were lifting off the ground by 0415 hours in 8 Air Force HH53A Super Jolly Green Giant helicopters.
		By the time Operation Mayaguez was over, 3 helicopters had been shot down, 6 received severe damage, 3 others were heavily damaged and only one was still flyable.
	web.infoave.net /~eagle290/pow_mia/powmia_hargrove.html (3357 words)

	USS Badger 1071"dot"org - The Mayaguez Incident
		The Mayaguez incident was the first major foreign policy crisis of United States President Gerald R. Ford.
		The first casualties of the effort to free the MAYAGUEZ are recorded on May 13 when a helicopter carrying Air Force security team personnel crashed en route to Utapao, killing all 23 aboard.
		The MAYAGUEZ crew was recovered by the USS Wilson before the second wave of Marines was deployed, but the second wave was ordered to attack anyway.
	ussbadger-1071.org /menus/mayaguez.htm (1695 words)

	Final Battle - The Mayaguez Rescue Operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SS Mayaguez was on its way from Hong Kong to Sattahip in Thailand, when, on May 12, it was intercepted and seized by the Khmer Rouge Navy.
		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.
		On May 12, a US merchant ship, the SS Mayaguez, on its way from Hong Kong to Sattahip in Thailand with a cargo of paint and other non-lethal materials, was seized by the Khmer Rouge Navy.
	aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk /waf/aa-eastasia/cambodia/cam-maya1.htm (1350 words)

	Unknown News
		The Mayaguez Incident, 1975: Cambodian troops seized an American merchant vessel, the Mayaguez, on May 12, 1975, for allegedly violating Cambodian territorial waters.
		The 40 crew members were held captive in an incident disturbingly reminiscent of the capture of the USS Pueblo by the North Koreans in 1968.
		The incident served as the justification for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed by Congress Aug. 10, which authorized the subsequent U.S. build-up of forces.
	www.unknownnews.org /warlies.html (1464 words)

	Photographs - Mayaguez Incident (Ship Seizure) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Ford is briefed by General David C. Jones, USAF, Acting Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, on possible military options at the onset of the Mayaguez situation.
		President Ford meets with his National Security Council to discuss the Mayaguez situation.
		Air Force General David Jones, Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefs the National Security Council on the status of the rescue operation to gain the release of the crew of the S.S. Mayaguez, in the Cabinet Room.
	www.ford.utexas.edu /avproj/mayaguez.htm (187 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.
		Survivors of the incident described the heroic but chaotic helicopter evacuation of the Marines, with Khmer Rouge rocket and machine-gun fire so intense that the Marines could not evacuate their dead.
		I sent members of my embassy staff to the stone quarry to purchase a beautiful slab of marble and had it engraved as the "Mayaguez - Marine Corps Memorial." On it are listed the names of all 18 men who gave their lives.
	desmoinesregister.com /opinion/stories/c5917686/21292202.html (907 words)

	Mayaguez incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mayaguez incident was the first major foreign policy crisis of United States President Gerald R. Ford.
		The incident ended on May 15 when U.S. Navy and Marines raided the Cambodian island Koh Tang[?] and recovered the Mayaguez.
		Durring the operation 38 servicemen were killed but all 40 of the Mayaguez's crew were retured safely.
	www.city-search.org /ma/mayaguez-incident.html (330 words)

	Honors sought for Marine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mayaguez was seized 12 days after the fall of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital.
		All 40 Mayaguez crew members were eventually released by the Khmer Rouge.
		Mayaguez “was part and parcel of the final chapter.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/05/15/loc_honors_sought_for.html (683 words)

	The Kiss of Henry
		As it happens, the last time US citizens were "held hostage" within the orbit of China, Kissinger committed yet another in a long series of the commingled crimes and blunders that have been the milestones of his career.
		The names of those lost in the recapture of the Mayaguez in May 1975 are the last names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, so a good deal of emotional and ideological credibility is invested in the idea that they did not die in vain.
		The best evidence now is that the Mayaguez was seized without orders by a rogue Khmer Rouge unit, and that there was no dispute that could not have been arbitrated by simple diplomacy.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20010430/hitchens (891 words)

	The VVA Veteran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In July 1994, The VVA Veteran ran Out With A Whimper, The Tragedy of The Mayaguez, William Triplett's account of what many consider to be the final battle of the Vietnam War.
		In it, Schlesinger revealed for the first time his recollections of the incident and how he was able to stall the White House for three hours and avert a complete tragedy.
		On May 12, 1975, the civilian container ship SS Mayaguez was hijacked in international waters by a Cambodian Khmer Rouge gunboat.
	www.vva.org /TheVeteran/1999_11/lostmen.htm (993 words)

	MIA Marines Identified From Mayaguez Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On May 12, 1975, Khmer Rouge gunboats captured the SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand approximately 60 nautical miles off the coast of Cambodia.
		Three days after the Mayaguez seizure, six Air Force helicopters were dispatched to the island.
		One of the helicopters came under heavy enemy fire as it approached the eastern beach of the island.
	www.dtic.mil /dpmo/news/2000/000518_osd_pr260_sea_mayaguez.htm (458 words)

	Debating Our Destiny: The Second 1976 Presidential Debate -- October 6, 1976
		President, the Government Accounting Office has just put out a report suggesting that you shot from the hip in the Mayaguez rescue mission and that you ignored diplomatic messages saying that a peaceful solution was in prospect.
		It seems to me that those who sit in Washington eighteen months after the incident are not the best judges of the decision-making process that had to be made by the National Security Council and by myself at the time the incident was developing in the Pacific.
		He had the facts that were released today immediately after the Mayaguez incident.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/debatingourdestiny/76debates/2_d.html (2398 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Three Vietnam-era naval ships, including a frigate that was involved in the Mayaguez incident nearly three decades ago, will see final action as part of the monthlong Pacific nation exercise that begins at Pearl Harbor tomorrow.
		On May 13, 1975, the Holt was ordered to sink or incapacitate the merchant ship Mayaguez, which a day earlier had been seized by the Khmer Rouge in the Gulf of Siam 60 miles from Cambodia.
		While Marines from the Holt boarded the Mayaguez on May 15, another group of Marines was ordered to storm a compound on the island of Koh Tang, located 35 miles off the coast of Cambodia since it was believed that some of the crew might be held there.
	starbulletin.com /2002/06/24/news/story3.html (700 words)

	Bio, Hall, Gary L.
		Late in the afternoon, the assault force had consolidated its position on the western landing zone and the eastern landing zone was evacuated at 6:00 p.m.
		MIA Marines Identified From Mayaguez Incident - From the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense - News Release May 18, 2000 - "Six Marines missing in action from the Vietnam War have been accounted for and their remains are being returned to their families for burial in the United States."
		Mayaguez Documentary - We hope you all saw the excellent documentary on the Mayaguez incident aired by the Discovery Channel.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/h/h173.htm (3751 words)

	Valor: The Mayaguez Incident - September 1991
		Beyond that, it was important to counter a growing feeling among US allies and adversaries that this country was "a helpless giant," an unreliable ally lacking resolve.
		The destroyer Holt was directed to seize the Mayaguez, while Marines, airlifted and supported by the Air Force, were to rescue the crew, at least some of whom were believed to be held on Kho Tang.
		Twenty-three others were killed in a helicopter crash en route from Hakhon Phanom to U Tapao, but the objectives of the operation were achieved.
	www.afa.org /magazine/valor/0991valor.asp (1031 words)

	Capture and Release of SS Mayaguez by Kmer Rouge forces in May 1975
		She was renamed SS Sea in 1964, and SS Mayaguez in 1965.
		On May 12, 1975 the SS Mayaguez was in a regular shipping lane in the Gulf of Siam about 60 miles from the coast of Cambodia, but only about 8 miles from Poulo Wai (Kao Wai), an island claimed by Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
		SS Mayaguez article in Seafarers Magazine members of mariners union were aboard SS Mayaguez.
	www.usmm.org /mayaguez.html (1580 words)

	The Mayaguez Incident \| IlliniPundit.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mayaguez crisis is one of the last decisive military actions taken by a President, but is largely forgotten, mostly because it was largely done right.
		In fact, military analysts draw parallels between the Mayaguez incident and Eagle Claw because of similarities in intelligence and command-and-control problems which contributed to mistakes and loss of life.
		Multiple sources verify that the outcome of the Mayaguez incident was not determined by American military action; in fact, the hostages had been released before the American military response even began.
	www.illinipundit.com /2006/12/27/the-mayaguez-incident (3404 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		It was what quickly became known as "the Mayaguez Incident" during which these deaths occurred.
		No U.S. Marines were involved in the Columbia Eagle incident, and there was no U.S. military activity required in getting the ship to leave Cambodia.
		Polmar cites two alleged events that are related not to the Columbia Eagle incident but, rather, to the Mayaguez incident, it's hard to believe that he actually read "The Eagle Mutiny."
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/sep_02_08.php (786 words)

	The Mayaguez Incident: A Failure in Operational Leadership - Storming Media
		The success and political euphoria of the Mayaguez crisis resolution championed this relatively small tactical mission encompassing strategic implications.
		The intervening twenty years since Mayaguez have seen a greater emphasis placed on operational art, yet the execution of operational leadership must constantly be studied to ensure proper application.
		The Mayaguez incident provides an excellent example for the study of operational leadership in strategic/tactical missions.
	www.stormingmedia.us /46/4623/A462392.html (220 words)

	Jacques
		The MAYAGUEZ was deserted. Simultaneously, the Marines of the 2/9 were making their landings on two other areas of the island.
		The MAYAGUEZ crew was recovered by the USS WILSON before the second wave of Marines was deployed, but the second wave was ordered to attack anyway. Late in the afternoon, the assault force had consolidated its position on the western landing zone and the eastern landing zone was evacuated at 6:00 p.m.
		Ashton Loney had been killed by enemy fire, but his body could not be recovered. The eighteen men missing from the MAYAGUEZ incident are listed among the missing from the Vietnam war.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Bunker/4421/Jacques.html (786 words)

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