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.

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 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 ...

But the departure of the last helicopters from the rooftop ... North Vietnamese tanks were rolling through Saigon. And the US ambassador to Vietnam, Graham Martin, had deludedly believed that ...

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 ...