The Sinking of the USNS Card: A Viet Cong Commando Victory and Its Lasting Implications
It was a covert operation that would go down in history as a stark illustration of vulnerability and resilience. In the pre-dawn stillness of May 2, 1964, a pair of Viet Cong commandos quietly emerged from a Saigon Port sewer, their mission clear and their cargo lethal. The target: the USNS Card, a World War…