U.S. Navy Rescue of North Vietnamese Sailors

U.S. Navy carrier aircraft patrolling off of Haiphong, North Vietnam, identify three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, which fire torpedoes from long range at the destroyer USS Rogers and the frigate USS Coontz. U.S. Navy F-4 Phantoms subsequently sink the enemy boats. American ships rescue 19 North Vietnamese survivors. They are exchanged for U.S. POWs in 1967 and 1968.¹