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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

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Re: 2 Mayaguez MIAs May Be Found

Date: April 07, 1999

The Mayaguez Incident - The Merchant freighter Mayaguez was captured by the Khmer Rouges on May 12, 1975. The vessel, bound for Thailand, was captured when the Cambodian guerillas assaulted it with two gunboats and boarded it. The Khmer Rouges charged the 39 crewmembers with espionage and held them. Two days of intense attacks insued and the Mayaguez was retaken by US forces when an amphibious assault of US Marines stormed her.

18 USMC personnel disappeared during the rescue mission, 14 MAY 1975, on Hoh Tang island.

Almost 24 years later, news reports state that searchers from the US and Cambodia may have discovered the remains of two of the servicemen lost during that engagement. Discovered 115 miles south of Phnom Penh in Sihanoukville, the remains have left Cambodia for identification at CIL-HI.

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