CIA officers helped staff of the Saigon Regime evacuate by helicopter on the roof of the building 22 Gia Long (now Ly Tu Trong Street), 800m from the US Embassy.
Helicopters brought US Marines to Tan Son Nhat airport, blockading the essential areas to evacuate the last Americans in Saigon.
Thousands of people working for the US agencies in Saigon tried to climb over the 4.2 meter wall to enter the US Embassy when Washington decided to evacuate Americans by the airlifted campaign on the roof of the embassy building.
Those who worked for the US authorities and their family members waited in front of the US Embassy.
Climbing over the wall in an effort to try to catch the helicopter area.
The evacuation helicopter of US Marines.
The last US citizens, including journalists, evacuated from Saigon at noon.
Immediately after the US security forces left the US embassy, people began flocking into the embassy for looting. Despite the 24/24 curfew, the street was crowded with people carrying looting things.
Women with things acquired after the US withdrawal
A wounded Saigon regime soldier with cans obtained from the US base.
US Marines lie flat on the deck of the USS Blue Ridge battleship to avoid metal fragments after a helicopter landed onto the deck. The helicopter carrying women and children almost fell into the sea, but fortunately it was rescued and no one was injured.
US soldiers on the USS Blue Ridge had to push a helicopter into the ocean to have space for other flights of those evacuated from Saigon. A US Marines soldier holds a little girl to safe place on the USS Blue Ridge after the helicopter collided with another while landing on the deck.
US Marines soldiers made an intervention for a mother with 3 crying children looking for an evacuation route.
Saigon River on the last day of April 1975.
Tanks of the liberation army enter Saigon, straight to the Independence Palace.
Liberation Army tanks knock down the gate of the Independence Palace, signaling the end of the Saigon government. |
Images: The last 48 hours of the Saigon Regime in 1975
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