U.S. Marines run from the GH53 helicopter that landed them on Koh Tang Island 30 miles off Cambodia in rescue of U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez (May 15, 1975). Credit: AP Photo In his new book When the ...

Forty-five years ago the United States military fought its last battle of the Indochinese wars, soon after the Khmer Rouge began sacking Phnom Penh and illegally seized the SS Mayaguez, sailing ...

In May 1975, Khmer Rouge forces seized the container ship USS Mayaguez and moved the crew to Koh Tang Island, triggering a US response driven by national prestige and fear of humiliation. With limited ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says fragmentary remains of a Marine who perished in a failed helicopter rescue of the crew of the merchant ship Mayaguez in May 1975 will be buried Wednesday at ...

On this date in history: In 1909, two giraffes, one leopard and one buffalo killed, and two leopard cubs captured were the latest additions to the former President Teddy Roosevelt's hunting trophies, ...