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here you go Baz and now I do remember it

 

Throughout April, the United States reduced the number of people and the equipment in Vietnam. Then on April 28, 1975, the order from President Gerald Ford arrived, launching Operation Frequent Wind, the term used for the final evacuation. The coded message went out: The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising.” Then the wistful strains of White Christmas played on the radio.

In nineteen hours, 81 helicopters carried approximately 7,000 people to aircraft carriers offshore.

As more people than expected arrived to clamber onto the helicopters, people left their belongings behind. Men and women opened their suitcases to locate passports. For some climbing on to the Sikorsky H-34s, there was no room to sit. They stood anxiously, desperate to get 

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Dame_Ann_Average posted:

here you go Baz and now I do remember it

 

Throughout April, the United States reduced the number of people and the equipment in Vietnam. Then on April 28, 1975, the order from President Gerald Ford arrived, launching Operation Frequent Wind, the term used for the final evacuation. The coded message went out: The temperature in Saigon is 105 degrees and rising.” Then the wistful strains of White Christmas played on the radio.

In nineteen hours, 81 helicopters carried approximately 7,000 people to aircraft carriers offshore.

As more people than expected arrived to clamber onto the helicopters, people left their belongings behind. Men and women opened their suitcases to locate passports. For some climbing on to the Sikorsky H-34s, there was no room to sit. They stood anxiously, desperate to get 

Baz

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