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Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam
Raúl Herrera
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Texas Tech University Press
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Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam - Herrera, Raúl ; O'Neill, John E.
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Synopsis "Capturing Skunk Alpha: A Barrio Sailor's Journey in Vietnam"
On the evening of July 11, 1967, a Navy surveillanceaircraft spotted a suspicious trawler in international waters heading towardthe Quang Ngai coast of South Vietnam. While the ship tried to appear innocuouson its deck, Saigon quickly identified it as an enemy gunrunner, codenamedSkunk Alpha. A four-seaborne intercept task force was established andformed a barrier inside South Vietnam's twelve-mile territorial boundary. As theenemy ship ignored all orders to surrender and neared the Sa Ky River at thetip of the Batangan Peninsula, Swift Boat PCF-79 was ordered to take thetrawler under fire. What followed was ship-to-ship combat action not seen sinceWorld War II. Capturing Skunk Alpha relatesthat breathtaking military encounter to readers for the first time. But Capturing SkunkAlpha is also the tale of one sailor's journey to the deck of PCF-79. Twoyears earlier, Raúl Herrera was growing up on the west side of San Antonio, Texas, when he answered the call to duty and joined the US Navy. Raúl was assigned toPCF Crew Training and joined a ragtag six-man Swift Boat crew with a mission toprevent the infiltration of resupply ships from North Vietnam. The brave sailors whosteered into harm's way in war-torn Vietnam would keep more than ninety tons ofammunition and supplies from the Viet Cong and NVA forces. The Viet Cong wouldpost a bounty on PCF-79; Premier Nguyễn Cao Kỳ and Chief of State Nguyễn VănThiệu would congratulate and decorate them for their heroism. Capturing Skunk Alpha provides aneyewitness account of a pivotal moment in Navy operations while alsochronicling one sailor's unlikely journey from barrio adolescence to perilouscombat action on the high seas.
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