Posted on 04/22/2005 11:32:49 AM PDT by JZelle
The memories are still vivid: a steaming bus ride through the humid morning, the acrid odor of jet fuel, the clouds of smoke from distant gunfire, getting closer. Then about 450 people boarded the last commercial flight out of Saigon, headed for the United States. That was April 24, 1975, six days before the North Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon. A Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 -- crammed with Pan Am and U.S. Embassy staff, frightened refugees, crying orphans and volunteer crew members -- lifted off the potholed tarmac at Tan Son Nhut International Airport on the outskirts of the chaotic city, and took flight while distant rockets took aim.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I always looked, and looked for that picture of the helicopter that took off of the Embassy roof and people trying to grab the runners to get OUT.
Go to this website - http://www.fallofsaigon.org/nypaper.htm - and look at the second photo. It's a picture of the front page that the NY Times ran.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep looking for a better picture.
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