How We Oversimplified the History of the Vietnam War
At
7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter
ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown
Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the waiting deck of
the USS Okinawa. Its departure marked the final mission of the
massive helicopter-borne evacuation that began less than 24 hours
earlier and heralded the end of America’s once-mighty military presence
in South Vietnam. Two hours later, North Vietnamese tanks carrying the
flags of the southern revolutionary National Liberation Front smashed
through the gates of the Republic of Vietnam’s presidential palace.
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