The capture of Saigon – the capital of America's ally South Vietnam – by communist North Vietnamese forces on 30 April 1975, ...

Marine pilot John Morgan received orders to fly his helicopter to Vietnam and help evacuate people after the war. It ended up ...

That's the airborne commander directing helicopters into both the embassy and Tan Son Nhut Airport outside Saigon to pick up ... Until now, Ambassador Graham Martin has refused to leave.

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon this week will trigger complex and mixed emotions for those who lived through it.

On April 29 and 30, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon, U.S. Marine Corps pilots evacuated more than 7,000 ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the decades-long Vietnam War. Images of overloaded evacuation helicopters ... then U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin ordered the evacuation ...

The fall of Saigon didn’t happen in a day, although the iconic photos of Huey helicopters rescuing ... the problem was the American ambassador Graham Martin. In mid-April, he was acting like ...

American forces rushed to evacuate the last of personnel from the U.S embassy rooftop by helicopter as North ... with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the fall of Saigon and his memories from those ...

As North Vietnamese troops shelled Saigon’s Tan Son Njut Air Base, then U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin ... ships, helicopters were thrown overboard to lighten the load. FILE - The Fall of Saigon ...