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Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955
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Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955 Hardcover - 2007

by Ronald B. Frankum; Foreword by James Reckner


From the publisher

Very little has been written about the U.S. Navy in Vietnam in the immediate post-Korean War era, nor has the magnitude of American participation in the resettlement of Vietnam refugees following the 1954 Geneva Conference been explored. Beginning in the fall of 1954, U.S. Navy ships, as a part of Task Force 90, helped to relocate thousands of displaced North Vietnamese to South Vietnam following the separation of the nation at the 17th parallel. What those sailors accomplished during the three hundred days of Operation Passage to Freedom forever changed the lives of more than 310,000 Vietnamese who traveled on their ships. In Operation Passage to Freedom Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. recounts the events surrounding this enormous humanitarian evacuation that was the American military's first major involvement with the Vietnamese people. Based on archival research and interviews with more than forty sailors who participated in Task Force 90, Operation Passage to Freedom illuminates a mission that has been all but forgotten and also explores how the initial humanitarian involvement of the United States in Vietnam eventually led to massive military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Details

  • Title Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955
  • Author Ronald B. Frankum; Foreword by James Reckner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock
  • Date 2007
  • ISBN 9780896726086 / 0896726088
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.3 x 1.03 in (23.57 x 16.00 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Political refugees - Vietnam, Operation Passage to Freedom, 1954-1955
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006039810
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 49

About the author

Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. is author of Like Rolling Thunder: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1975. He is an assistant professor of history at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.