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  2. Embassy of the United States, Saigon - Wikipedia

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    The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon ...

  3. Operation Frequent Wind - Wikipedia

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    The evacuation took place primarily from the Defense Attaché Office compound, beginning around 14:00 on the afternoon of 29 April, and ending that night with only limited small arms damage to the helicopters. The U.S. Embassy in Saigon was intended to only be a secondary evacuation point for embassy staff, but it was soon overwhelmed with ...

  4. 22 Gia Long Street - Wikipedia

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    One of several evacuations by helicopter from 22 Gia Long Street on 29 April 1975. Photographed by Hubert van Es, working for UPI. Rooftop of 22 Gia Long Street in 2002. 22 Gia Long Street (Vietnamese: số 22 đường Gia Long, [jaː lawŋ] yah-lom), now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street (số 22 đường Lý Tự Trọng), is an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City (also known as Saigon), the ...

  5. Last US Marines to leave Saigon describe chaos of war's end

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    HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) - As the Marines scrambled to the roof of the U.S. Embassy, they locked a chain-link gate on every other floor to slow the throng of panicked Vietnamese civilians ...

  6. 40 years on, images of Saigon's fall remain indelible - AOL

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    Forty years later, the images remain searing: Throngs of desperate South Vietnamese civilians trying to scale the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.

  7. Hubert van Es - Wikipedia

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    Hubert van Es (6 July 1941 – 15 May 2009) was a Dutch photographer and photojournalist who took the well-known photo on 29 April 1975, which shows South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon. The picture was taken a day before the Fall of Saigon.

  8. State Department Air Wing - Wikipedia

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    A photo taken of the flight operations showing a CH-47 landing behind an embassy building was compared to a photo of a Marine Sea Knight evacuating the last Americans from the US embassy in Saigon during the Fall of Saigon, while one of Air Wing Sea Knights flying the rescue operations in Kabul was also in fact previously employed during the ...

  9. File:Embassy of the United States, Saigon.jpg - Wikipedia

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    The embassy was struck by a number of rockets during the VC attack as clearly seen in this image of the embassy façade. Even after the embassy was secured there was a great deal of uncertainty as to what was happening and where the next attack might occur: Source: US Army images: Author: US Army Military History Institute