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Testifying before the Navy court of inquiry in Coronado, Calif., last week, Rear Admiral George L. Cassell, former assistant chief of staff for Pacific Fleet Operations, said that the Navy launched its rescue mission immediately after the capture. Two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Truxton and U.S.S. Higbee, were ordered to sail to Wonsan. Under heavy air cover and backed up by a U.S. ultimatum to the North Koreans, Higbee was to dash into Wonsan harbor and escort Pueblo to safety. However, noted Cassell, the plan was vetoed by "higher authority...
Bucher rehearsed Pueblo's tragic odyssey before a panel of five admirals in the stark auditorium of the Naval Amphibious Base at Coronado, Calif. His wife Rose sat in the front row, and he appeared at times to enjoy the opportunity to tell his story. The Navy made it clear that this was an inquiry, not a trial. However, depending on the testimony, the panel will have to decide whether there is cause to recommend bringing charges against the commander or his crew. And midway through his account last week, Bucher was informed that his testimony rendered him suspect...
Terror and Torture. The Navy was saving the Pueblo's story for the court, which is expected to convene at Coronado, Calif., later this month, and it ordered the crew to say nothing. Meanwhile, it awarded ten Purple Hearts to crewmen wounded in the high-seas hijacking. Last week, too, after Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford demanded an investigation of the ugly tales of beatings inflicted on the Pueblo's men, the Navy permitted two sailors to give a public accounting of terror and torture as prisoners of North Korea...
FRANK A. ZIMANSKI Captain, U.S.N. (Ret.) Coronado, Calif...
...first fight began when a 62-boat Allied flotilla churning up the Rach Ruong Canal 65 miles southwest of Saigon was suddenly hit by intense fire. It carried a battalion of Vietnamese Marines and a battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry, part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting...