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See also http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Columbia_Eagle_incident

It's interesting how these two incidents frame a peculiar trajectory of Viet Nam.

I was told that the Mayaguez was the last US merchant ship out of Saigon before it fell, and that it carried four containers of US embassy documents when it was boarded by the Khmer Rouge.

Contents 1 Declassified Documents 2 Disambiguation required wrt Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 3 rewrite and references 4 additional perspective needed=

[edit] Declassified Documents

There are declassified documents that ought to be integrated into this article and added to the References section. E.g. Debrief of the Mayaguez Captain and Crew, May 19, 1975 -- David Woolley 13:04, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation required wrt Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Currently Mayagüez and Mayaguez redirect to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. I think they need disambiguation pages that give a choice of that and SS Mayagüez, which is a redirect to this page. Also the linking of SS Mayagüez on this page is self-referential. --David Woolley 13:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Now done --David Woolley 23:54, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] rewrite and references

I checked my sources and did an extensive rewrite (I forgot to sign in so my IP appears instead of user name)--many facts were present in the original, but like the Marines on Koh tang, were isolated from each other. Also I found a few indications of language lifted directly from copyrighted sources, so that was re-written. Finally, I included my two main references, but I have others I'm going to check also for agreement. --Buckboard 11:24, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] additional perspective needed=

This article needs to include more from critical perspectives, this article from the journal Cold War History might help: article. Specifically we need to look at claims that the Prisoners had immediately been ordered to be released, that they were released 45 minutes before bombing began (why is there no mention of bombing of the mainland!), that Kissinger and Schlesinger had both been against any negotiation, that Kissinger wanted a massive show of force even if killed the crew, and etc.