The Real Story Behind That Iconic Saigon Evacuation Photograph CH-46F Sea Knight: The “Phrog” “After the fall of Phuoc Long, Thieu realized the United States was not going to save him,” recalled Snepp. “He decided to retrench, but it was too little, too late. He conceived a ...
“Officers and men, the eyes of the whole world will be upon you in this campaign, and working together in community of spirit, you must demonstrate to the world the true worth of Japanese manhood,” the book concluded. The manhood assigned to the conquest of Malaya was the 25th Army, b...
Motorola said. Colussy, with help from his lawyers, then recalled an obscure federal law allowing the Department of Defense to indemnify civilian contractors engaged in hazardous work. He had used it in his Pan Am days so the airline could fly to Saigon during the Vietnam War. One problem...
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the novel follows a narrator that’s a communist double agent, a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon. While building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles...
Vietnam War - Fall, Saigon, US Withdrawal: In early March the North Vietnamese launched the first phase of what was expected to be a two-year offensive to secure South Vietnam. As it happened, the South's government and army collapsed in less than two mo