View of a crane at the Saigon Naval Shipyard, Vietnam, circa 1968. The 230,000 square meter shipyard, located on the southwest bank of the Saigon River about 48 km from the South China Sea, represented the largest single industrial complex in South East Asia. The shipyard had been created by the French in 1863 as a major repair and resupply base. In 1969, 1,800 men were employed there, repairing and overhauling vessels.
U.S. Navy
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html">U.S. Navy All Hands magazine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah196804.pdf">April 1968</a>, p. 24.