Vietnam War Refugees in Guam e-bog
184,80 DKK
(inkl. moms 231,00 DKK)
More than 130,000 South Vietnamese fled their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands landed on the island of Guam on their way to the U.S. Many remained there. Guamanians and U.S. military personnel welcomed them. Funded by a $405 million Congressional appropriation, Operation New Life was among the most intensive humanitarian efforts ever accomplished by the U.S. government,...
E-bog
184,80 DKK
Forlag
McFarland
Udgivet
24 marts 2022
Længde
203 sider
Genrer
Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781476644172
More than 130,000 South Vietnamese fled their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands landed on the island of Guam on their way to the U.S. Many remained there. Guamanians and U.S. military personnel welcomed them. Funded by a $405 million Congressional appropriation, Operation New Life was among the most intensive humanitarian efforts ever accomplished by the U.S. government, with the help of the people of Guam. Without it, many evacuees would have died somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. This book chronicles a part of the first mass migration of Vietnamese "e;boat people,"e; before and after the fall of Saigon in April 1975--a story still unfolding almost half a century later.