The approaching storm : conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 / Edward J. Marolda.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marolda, Edward J.
Corporate Author: Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Naval History & Heritage Command, Department of the Navy, 2009.
Series:U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War.
Subjects:
United States. > Navy > History > Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
United States. > Navy > History > 20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Naval operations, American.
Southeast Asia > History > 1945-
East Asia > History > 1945-
Physical Description:v, 84 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Format: Government Document Book
Contents:
  • Emerging communist threats in Asia
  • The conflict spreads throughout the Far East
  • The French Indochina War
  • Growing U.S. concerns about Southeast Asia
  • Changing of the guard in South Vietnam
  • Hanoi opens the campaign for South Vietnam and Laos
  • U.S. Naval assistance to South Vietnam
  • The U.S. Navy and counterinsurgency warfare
  • U.S. Naval forces join the fight
  • Bringing the war to North Vietnam
  • Combat in the Gulf of Tonkin
  • On the eve of war
  • Sidebars
  • Passage to freedom
  • A naval advisor : Lieutenant Dale C. Meyerkord
  • Escape from Laos
  • 34 Alpha Maritime Operations
  • Task Force 77.