This photograph, taken on May 2 1964, showed the USNS Card in Saigon after it was attacked by Viet Cong commandos of the 65th Special Operations Group. Wikipedia
Vietnam.net: Commando recalls sinking of US aircraft carrier
VietNamNet Bridge – Seventy-nine-year-old former Vietnamese commando Lam Son Nao still feels uncomfortable whenever he thinks about the moment he tried to recover 84 kilos of explosives that had been left near the USNS Core aircraft carrier.
Recalling the event of 52 years ago during a recent interview at his home in HCM City, Nao said he first conducted a feasibility study for the attack by inspecting a two kilometre-long sewer tunnel three times before he and his comrade Nguyen Van Cay were approved to proceed with the mission.
They later set the explosives to go off at 7pm on December 29, 1963, but they failed to detonate because of a weak battery.
Nao then decided to return to the aircraft carrier to retrieve the explosives.
WNU Editor: A fascinating story. For more information Wikipedia has put together a good summary of this attack .... Attack on the USNS Card (Wikipedia).
2 comments:
I would be careful with this story.
I was surprised when I read it James. I never knew that such an incident happened ... nor the details behind it (if they are true).
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