South of Saigon

A secret mission sends the author to Vietnam's Mekong Delta the bread basket of old Indo - China. He uncovers a sophisticated enemy supply network unknown to our military hierarchy. <br><br> Using intelligence data covertly gathered in Cambodia and analyzed at the Center for Naval Analyses in Arlington Virginia they discover and destroy Vietcong forces and interdict VC supply lines with a mixture of intrigue and romance. <br><br> A U. S. Naval story never told complete with declassified maps from the Office of Naval Intelligence and illuminating pictures of Saigon and archaic areas of the Delta taken by the author forty - six years ago a depiction of old Saigon and real relationships between North and South Vietnam are related. <br><br> Headquartered in Saigon the true interaction between our Navy and Army ( MACV ) brass couched in the background of wartime Saigon often referred to as the Paris of the Orient and Washington D. C. is insightfully told.