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Capturing Skunk Alpha - A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam (Paperback)
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Capturing Skunk Alpha - A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam (Paperback)
Series: Peace and Conflict
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List price R649
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Discovery Miles 5 880
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On the evening of July 11, 1967, a Navy surveillance aircraft
spotted a suspicious trawler in international waters heading toward
the Quang Ngai coast of South Vietnam. While the ship tried to
appear innocuous on its deck, Saigon quickly identified it as an
enemy gunrunner, codenamed Skunk Alpha. A four-seaborne intercept
task force was established and formed a barrier inside South
Vietnam’s twelve-mile territorial boundary. As the enemy ship
ignored all orders to surrender and neared the Sa Ky River at the
tip of the Batangan Peninsula, Swift Boat PCF-79 was ordered to
take the trawler under fire. What followed was ship-to-ship combat
action not seen since World War II. Capturing Skunk Alpha relates
that breathtaking military encounter to readers for the first time.
But Capturing Skunk Alpha is also the tale of one sailor’s
journey to the deck of PCF-79. Two years earlier, Raúl Herrera was
growing up on the west side of San Antonio, Texas, when he answered
the call to duty and joined the US Navy. Raúl was assigned to PCF
Crew Training and joined a ragtag six-man Swift Boat crew with a
mission to prevent the infiltration of resupply ships from North
Vietnam. The brave sailors who steered into harm’s way in
war-torn Vietnam would keep more than ninety tons of ammunition and
supplies from the Viet Cong and NVA forces. The Viet Cong would
post a bounty on PCF-79; Premier Nguyễn Cao Kỳ and Chief of
State Nguyễn Văn Thiệu would congratulate and decorate them
for their heroism. Capturing Skunk Alpha provides an eyewitness
account of a pivotal moment in Navy operations while also
chronicling one sailor’s unlikely journey from barrio adolescence
to perilous combat action on the high seas.Â
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