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Date Posted: 04:24:42 08/18/07 Sat
I received an email about this book and thought I should post the information. The Mountrail, Montrose and many other ships were involved in this operation. By the mid 50's about 80% of the cost of the Vietnam War was being paid by the US.
Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955
By Ronald B. Frankum Jr.
Foreword by James R. Reckner
Very little has been written about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam in the immediate post–Korean War era, nor has the magnitude of American participation in the resettlement of Vietnam refugees following the 1954 Geneva Conference been explored.
Operation Passage to Freedom illuminates a mission that has been all but forgotten, and also explores how the initial humanitarian involvement of the United States in Vietnam eventually led to massive military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.
Link to publisher's page:
http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/BookPages/0896726088.html
Page with my site about same topic: http://www.rpadden.com/213-vietnam/passage.htm
Russ
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