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Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Marolda, Edward J.

Contributors:

Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The approaching storm: conflict in Asia, 1945-1965 [by Marolda, E.J.]

Related 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-

United States Navy

Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Since 1900

Military operations, Naval — American

Southeast Asia

East Asia

Asia — Orient

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Shipping list no.: 2009-0284-P.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84).

Physical Description:

v, 84 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.

Call Numbers:

D 221.2:AS 4

SuDocs Numbers:

D 221.2:AS 4

ISBNs:

9780945274575 (alk. paper)
0945274572 (alk. paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

Government Printing Office Item Number: 0415-D-04

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008004081

OCLC Numbers:

191732539