You sound like you were either a military or diplomatic dependent...I was a military dependent and lived in Yokosuka and Subic during that time period...
Interesting time and place to be a kid, no doubt. Of course, add a few years onto your age, and it might have been a different time and place for sure, with a different set of “interesting” characteristics!
My father was a missionary in Vietnam.
We had to leave before Saigon fell. In fact my dad evacuated off of a BOQ in a helo and landed on a carrier. They pushed his helo off in the sea to make more room.
Interesting point...at that time I was an exchange student for a week at the high school at Subic and was staying with the base commanders family. He woke me in the middle of the night and showed me a bay full of lit up ships off loading stuff. He said “those ships are going to Vietnam for the evacuation. May be your Dad will get on one”. It was surreal.
Next thing I know he put me on a plane for the states where my mom had gone.
I’ll tell you about my bus ride from Manila to Olongapo and walking through that place at dusk to the front gate of subic. Quite an eye opener for a 15 year old!