operation report information
for VP-4
4 MARINES
9 MARINES
For date 750513
VP-4 was a US Navy unit
4 MARINES was a US Marine Corps unit
9 MARINES was a US Marine Corps unit
Operation MAYAGUEZ INCIDENT
Cambodia
Location, Koh Tang Island
Description: After systematically reviewing all vessels within 60 miles of the island, shortly after sunrise on the 13th a P-3 made a high-speed pass and positively identified the Mayaguez with two gunboats tied up alongside. The P-3 received AA fire and took one hit. Shortly after this, the Mayaguez sailed to Koh Tang, a small island about halfway to the mainland and anchored about one mile from the island. About 1500 the first USAF tactical aircraft arrived to protect the P-3s from hostile interceptors. Late that afternoon, the P-3s watched as the crew members from the Mayaguez were taken in a trawler to Koh Tang. Any aircraft within range was fired on by Cambodian AA.
Meanwhile in the Philippines, by 2200 elements of the 1/4th Marines were going through final inspections and at 2330 departed for Cubi Point airstrip. About the same time elements of the 2/9th Marines were doing the same thing at Okinawa.
The source for this information was The Marines in Vietnam Anthology P:240+
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