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 SS Mayaguez 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.
| 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. | |
| 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 |
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Bacaan tambahan sunting
- Clayton K.S. Chun, The Last Boarding Party: The USMC and the SS Mayaguez 1975, Raid series 24, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 2011. ISBN 978 1 84908 425 3
- Frisbee, John L., "The Mayaguez Incident", Air Force Magazine, Vol. 74, No. 9 (September 1991)
- Hunter, Ric, "The Last Battle of Vietnam", Flight Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (April 2000)
- Kissinger, Henry A., Years of Renewal, ch. 18 ("Anatomy of a Crisis: The Mayaguez").
Sumber terdeklasifikasi sunting
- Department of Defense After Action Report US Military Operations SS Mayaguez/Kaoh Tang Island May 12–15, 1975, GAO Review and Congressional Hearings
- Part Two 2017-02-03 di Wayback Machine.
- Commander in Chief Pacific Command History 1975, Appendix VI, The SS Mayaguez Incident 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
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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 2006-07-18 di Wayback Machine.
- 56th Security Police Squadron, Nakhom Phanom RTAFB, USS Mayaguez rescue operation 2007-12-27 di Wayback Machine.
- CBS news reports of the Mayaguez incident and the search for the three missing Marines
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