Jan K Herman: 2 books
The Lucky Few
The Fall of Saigon and the Rescue Mission of the USS Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam's coast. Their mission was to support the evacuation of American embassy personnel and military advisers from Saigon as well as to secure the safety of the South Vietnamese...
Navy Medicine in Vietnam: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
: Passage to Freedom to the Fall of Saigon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Navy Medicine begins and ends with a humanitarian operation-—the first, in 1954, after the French were defeated, when refugees fled to South Vietnam to escape from the communist regime in the North; and the second, in 1975, after the fall of Saigon and the final stage of America’s exit...