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Well,ok ,was watching a fantastic doco on the History channel

It was about the hijck of an american container ship in 1975 in the Coral sea.

What became the last real action of the vietnam war was an op to get the crew back from a Khmer held island called Koh Tang?

May 15th 1975 the lst 45 servicemen lost their lives.

I suppose what prompts this post is they left from UTAPa0 airport.

One salient comment from one of the poor unfortunate rescuers was Sir where am I?

Captain says Utapao

He says wheres that?

Well I guess many readers have been thru Utapao on their way to their fun in Pattaya.

I thought it was worth remembering after seeing this show ,that it had a very different role once.

Btw Has anyone been to Koh tang???

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The History channel errs.....

Unless that container ship had wings, they left from Sattahip, which then was a Thai/US Navy base. Utapao was/is an Airforce base. They are situated adjacent to one another.

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Well,ok ,was watching a fantastic doco on the History channel

It was about the hijck of an american container ship in 1975 in the Coral sea.

What became the last real action of the vietnam war was an op to get the crew back from a Khmer held island called Koh Tang?

May 15th 1975 the lst 45 servicemen lost their lives.

I suppose what prompts this post is they left from UTAPa0 airport.

One salient comment from one of the poor unfortunate rescuers was Sir where am I?

Captain says Utapao

He says wheres that?

Well I guess many readers have been thru Utapao on their way to their fun in Pattaya.

I thought it was worth remembering after seeing this show ,that it had a very different role once.

Btw Has anyone been to Koh tang???

The Mayaguez ...1975...check out the Koh Tang Beach Club...... :o

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