The last US servicemen left the place during the evacuation of Saigon in April 1975. Although President Ford considered the Mayaquez incident in May 1975 to be the end of it. The Mayaquez was a civilian ship taken by (Communist?) Cambodian pirates on the high seas (who may have been sailing ex-US Navy Swift Boats, one of which was reportedly sunk by US jets during the battle).
We were losing. It was a total stalemate and the mainstream American public finally put pressure on the politicians to end it.
US personnel were evacuated in 1975.
A 17 year old US Marine, US Airman, or US Sailor helping to evacuate US personnel from Saigon during it's fall in 1975...might be around 52 years old today.
South Vietnam was overrun in 1975, ending the Vietnam War. The forces of North Vietnam captured Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30, 1975 and the republic was officially unified on July 2, 1976.
During the fall of Saigon in 1975, not 1973, people were evacuated from rooftops in various locations in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Helicopters were used to evacuate both American officials and staff as well as South Vietnamese civilians who were at risk of persecution by the North Vietnamese forces.
President Gerald Ford pulled the last American Fighting Men out of Vietnam in 1975.
See: Eisenhower
April 30th 1975 ; Saigon fell to the communists .
A 17 year old US Marine, US Airman, or US Sailor helping to evacuate US personnel from Saigon during it's fall in 1975...might be around 52 years old today.
1973
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
South Vietnam was overrun in 1975, ending the Vietnam War. The forces of North Vietnam captured Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on April 30, 1975 and the republic was officially unified on July 2, 1976.
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During the fall of Saigon in 1975, not 1973, people were evacuated from rooftops in various locations in Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Helicopters were used to evacuate both American officials and staff as well as South Vietnamese civilians who were at risk of persecution by the North Vietnamese forces.
President Gerald Ford pulled the last American Fighting Men out of Vietnam in 1975.
See: Eisenhower
1975
The fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, was in April 1975. By then The United states had withdrawn almost all of it's troops.
Saigon Year of the Cat - 1983 TV is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G