U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese
The South Vietnamese Navy receives 125 U.S.vessels in a ceremony marking the end of the U.S.Navys four-year role in inland waterway combat.
This brings the total number of vessels turned over to the South Vietnamese Navy to 650.About 17000 Americans remained with the South Vietnamese Navy in shore positions and as advisers aboard South Vietnamese vessels.The transfer of inland waterway combat responsibility was part of President Nixons Vietnamization program in which the war effort was transferred to the South Vietnam so U.S.
troops could be withdrawn.
