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...others. A U.S. helicopter dipped down to pick up Cambodian survivors, but lifted off without any after it came under Cambodian fire. On Ford's orders, the eighth gunboat was allowed to proceed toward Kompong Som because a pilot reported seeing eight or nine men with "Caucasian faces" on deck; they were thought to be those of some or perhaps all of the Mayaguez's crew...
...ordered 210 Marines led by Lieut. Colonel Randall W. Austin, the ships and warplanes at Utapao and aboard the Coral Sea to make final preparations. Three HH-53 Jolly Green Giant helicopters fluttered from Utapao to the destroyer escort Holt, where 40 Marines clambered down ropes to the deck...
...U.S.S. Blue Ridge were openly bitter about Ambassador Graham Martin's failure to make firm, clear decisions on how the plan would actually be carried out -feelings that were hardly helped by the sight of Nitnoi, Martin's pet poodle, being given its daily turn about the deck. On evacuation day the emergency plan fell apart, leaving stranded hundreds of Vietnamese employees of the U.S. embassy, USAID and USIS. Some were never called, and buses were too crowded or failed to make their way to designated pickup points. In one shocking instance, a senior member of the embassy...
With her tanks topped off, the carrier soon swung into the wind and went back to work. The flight deck erupted with the frenetic precision of "launch and recovery," sending up 40 planes, like a parking lot emptying at rush hour. Phantoms, Intruders, Corsair II light attack bombers, as well as ugly-goose Hummers with their absurd-looking radar dishes, vaulted off the catapults with a roar and a swoop, 15 seconds apart. Within minutes, other planes were simultaneously coming in for "recovery," the "controlled crashes," as one flyer put it, that pass for carrier landings...
Martial Arts. On the bridge, Captain James Scott, 48, the Forrestal's skipper and a former fighter pilot, watched the thunderous flight deck activities below with a cheerful scowl: "We can do this with a 200-ft. ceiling and three-quarter-mile visibility," he said in his Alabama drawl. "That's badass. We don't like it, but in a crunch we have that capability, even at night...