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Shaun Usher
Apr 30, 2021
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Top-left: A Huey thrown overboard; Top-right: Buang-Ly lands safely; Bottom: A rapturous welcome

On this day in 1975, the Vietnam War effectively came to a close with the capture of South Vietnam’s capital city by North Vietnamese forces—the “Fall of Saigon”. Shortly before this happened, as the US evacuated as many American civilians as possible by heli…

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