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 ...
Standing on the US Embassy roof as tanks rumbled toward Saigon and gunfire rang out below, Juan Valdez wondered if he and his fellow Marines might have been forgotten. He had worked through the night ...
As North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon in April 1975, the US launched a last-ditch helicopter evacuation from rooftops and embassy compounds. Thousands were airlifted to ships offshore in ...
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