Caribbean Tempest: The Dominican Republic Intervention of 1965
(Colloquium on Contemporary History No. 2, 9 January 1990)
USS Boxer (LPH-4) offshore in February 1965 with six UH-34 Sea Horse helicopters flying in formation in the foreground. Note the Forrest Sherman-class destroyer in the background. Following the evacuation of U.S. citizens from the Dominican Republic that April, Boxer landed a Marine Corps battalion landing team in the country, part of Operation Power Pack, the U.S. intervention in the Dominican civil war.
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Transcripts from this colloquium include the following:
- Opening Remarks
Prelude to the Storm: The United States Navy and the Dominican Republic, 1959–1964
A Marine's View of the Dominican Intervention
- Intervention in Three-Part Harmony: The 1965 U.S. Dominican Intervention
- Speakers’ Biographies