Publisher's Synopsis
The circumstances surrounding the death of the first American soldier in Vietnam, Major A. Peter Dewey, are shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Dewey was the leader of an elite OSS unit, which arrived in Saigon in early September 1945. Three weeks later, he was murdered in an ambush on the day he was supposed to return to OSS Detachment 404 Headquarters in Candy, Ceylon. His body was never recovered and the group, which assassinated him, has never been identified. Dewey's name has not been engraved on the Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C. nor is it included in any U.S. Army 'Missing in Action' list. However, there is no doubt Major Dewey was the first American soldier to die in what would eventually become America's most controversial war. This is the story of Operation Embankment, a top-secret State Department mission, which Major Dewey led into the French colony of Indochina at the end of World War II.
