His assignment: to remove or destroy naval vessels and technology so they wouldn't fall into the hands of the Communists. had sold out the South Vietnamese.īut as it became clear that the South Vietnam government was about to fall, a Pentagon official asked Armitage to fly back to Vietnam with a dangerous mission. That 1973 agreement between all warring parties in Vietnam ended direct U.S. Then he resigned his commission and left the Navy in protest when the Nixon administration signed the Paris peace accords. He gained respect for the South Vietnamese as he worked alongside them and became fluent in the language. Now, its harbors were the hiding place for the remnants of the South Vietnamese navy.Īrmitage had come up with the plan for them to gather there.Īrmitage, a graduate of Annapolis, had been a Navy intelligence officer, assigned to Vietnamese units. Con Son was the site of a notorious prison. The Kirk and its crew of about 260 officers and men were ordered to Con Son Island, about 50 miles off the coast of South Vietnam and not yet occupied by the North Vietnamese. Secret Plan To Rescue More Than Just Ships
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