Fall of Saigon Ended Tumultuous Chapter in US History

(April 30) -- The signal went out at dawn, April 29, 1975 -- Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' on Armed Forces Radio. Across Saigon, the music set Americans moving toward the U.S. Embassy and a parking lot at Tan Son Nhut air base, where they crammed themselves and whatever they could carry into helicopters sent from Navy ships off the coast.

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