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

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.

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

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 ... twin-rotor CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, got orders on the afternoon of April 29 to fly to the US Embassy in Saigon and get Ambassador Graham Martin out.

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 ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the ... on one of the last helicopters out, in what ...

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 ...