Insiden Mayaguez

Insiden Mayaguez
Bagian dari Perang Vietnam
Puing-puing helikopter CH-53 Angkatan Udara AS Knife 23 dan Knife 31, ditembak jatuh pada pertempuran, terbaring di Pantai Timur Koh Tang tak lama usai pertempuran.
Tanggal 12–15 Mei 1975 Lokasi Koh Tang, Kamboja Hasil Pembebasan sukses SS Mayaguez beserta krunya
Pihak terlibat
Amerika Serikat	Kamboja Demokratik
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Randall W. Austin	Em Son
Pasukan
1st Battalion, 4th Marines 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines 21st Special Operations Squadron 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron Dukungan angkatan udara dan laut	Tidak diketahui
Kekuatan
	~100
Korban
38 tewas 50 luka-luka 3 ditangkap (kemudian dieksekusi) 3 helikopter dihancurkan	13–25 tewas di Koh Tang Jumlah yang tidak diketahui tewas di Swift Boats dan daratan utama Kamboja 15 luka-luka 4 Swift Boats tenggelam

Insiden Mayaguez terjadi antara Kamboja dan Amerika Serikat dari 12–15 Mei 1975, kurang dari sebulan setelah Khmer Merah merebut kendali atas ibukota Phnom Penh menggulingkan Republik Khmer bekingan AS. Setelah Khmer Merah merebut kapal dagang AS missing name di wilayah maritim sengketa, AS meluncurkan operasi penyelamatan. Marimir AS merebut kembali kapal tersebut dan menyerang pulau Koh Tang dimana para krunya diyakini dijadikan sebagai sandera.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

Sumber terdeklasifikasi

• Department of Defense After Action Report US Military Operations SS Mayaguez/Kaoh Tang Island May 12–15, 1975, GAO Review and Congressional Hearings
  • Part One
  • Part Two Diarsipkan 2017-02-03 di Wayback Machine.
• Commander in Chief Pacific Command History 1975, Appendix VI, The SS Mayaguez Incident Diarsipkan 2016-06-13 di Wayback Machine.
• History of the Pacific Air Forces 1 Jul 74-31 Dec 75 (pages 426–469), The Mayaguez Affair
• Foreign Relations Series, Vietnam, The SS Mayaguez Incident, May 12–15, 1975: Document List

Pranala luar

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Mayaguez incident.

• Koh Tang Beach Vets/Mayaguez Recovery Website
• Capture and Release of SS Mayaguez by Khmer Rouge forces in May 1975 Diarsipkan 2006-07-18 di Wayback Machine.
• 56th Security Police Squadron, Nakhom Phanom RTAFB, USS Mayaguez rescue operation Diarsipkan 2007-12-27 di Wayback Machine.
• CBS news reports of the Mayaguez incident and the search for the three missing Marines
• Left Behind but not Forgotten

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