Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. Marine helicopter takes off from helipad on top of the American Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, April 30, 1975. | Phu Naja Pham ...

In the early morning of April 30, 1975, the only U.S. military service members who remained in Vietnam were several dozen Marines on the ground in Saigon. They were waiting to get out themselves. A ...

April, 1975. During the chaotic final days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. City after city and ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The May 8, 1926, edition of the ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...

During the fall of the South Vietnamese capital in 1975, he helped evacuate thousands, and was nearly left behind. By Trip Gabriel Juan Jose Valdez, the last American serviceman to leave Vietnam, who ...