Rhscott Posted November 25, 2018 #1 Posted November 25, 2018 From my 1st cousins estate. He was with 1/4th Marines in 1975 during the boarding of the SS Mayaguez. Solid, 1/4" thick brass ships nameplate. Has one of these ever been seen before? Cool to have a actual part of the last battle of the Vietnam War.
Rhscott Posted November 25, 2018 Author #3 Posted November 25, 2018 I saw "wow" too but am at a loss as to historic appeal. Assume it ties Vietnam, the Marines and the US Navy pretty well but that is all I can grasp. Where on acontainer ship would such a nameplate be? Are there more than one? Or were these something the boarding party members had made?
Rhscott Posted April 23, 2024 Author #4 Posted April 23, 2024 Still a unknown part of history it seems.
manayunkman Posted April 23, 2024 #5 Posted April 23, 2024 Many years ago when I worked in Carlisle, PA I met Colonel Wood who was the Marine liaison at the US Army War College. In 1975 Wood was the captain who led the mission to retake the Mayaguez. He told me that by the time they boarded the ship it had been abandoned and that the floor of the bridge was covered with little papers each giving a course change. Somewhere I still have one of those course change papers.
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