The Fall Of Saigon

The Fall of SaigonApril 30, 1975This is How we left Vietnam.The 11 U.S. Marines on the roof of the American embassy in downtown Saigon thought they might have been forgotten. The sun was just up, and over the past 18 hours, U.S. Navy helicopters had extracted almost 1400 Americans and 5600 Vietnamese from Tan Son Nhut air base, on the northern fringe of the city, and from the embassy compound itself, flying them to aircraft carriers offshore. But there had been nothing for a good two hours, and...