46years ago today Saigon fell. I remember seeing these photos in the news then and for some time thereafter.
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The Fall of Saigon
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For me the most amazing story of all of them was that of the USS Kirk...
https://www.npr.org/2010/09/01/129578263/at-war-s-end-u-s-ship-rescued-south-vietnam-s-navy
https://www.npr.org/2010/09/01/129578263/at-war-s-end-u-s-ship-rescued-south-vietnam-s-navy
tbm3fan
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Quite a story that I hadn't heard.
You know for a month the Hornet had personal photographs taken by a soldier during his tour in Vietnam in 1969 if I remember correctly. He took many and made a book out of them but displayed dozens aboard the Hornet. I shot pictures of them. Need to see if I can actually get this site to cooperate on uploading them when at home.
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I've been meaning to buy the book about the Kirk's story.
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A bunch of the journalists who made their first breakthroughs in Viet Nam were friends of mine in Hong Kong, at the legendary Foreign Correspondents’ Club. Hugh Van Es, who shot the iconic picture of the helicopter taking people off the roof of a “embassy” (*ahem*, CIA) building was one of them. Very educational.
tbm3fan
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Let's give this a try a little at a time. Five sets of four each. 
tbm3fan
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It worked so let's try again 
tbm3fan
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Set 3 now...
tbm3fan
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Now set 4... 
tbm3fan
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Last set... 
Joey Bishop! He was the real deal about that time.
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Not sure if any of you have been to Vietnam, but I was there before Covid and toured a lot of the country.
I was able to do a lot of the war tours, checked out the Hanoi Hilton, a lot of the museums in Hanoi where a lot of US equipment is displayed, the former palace and US embassy in Saigon etc. But also along the DMZ, Khe Sanh, Camp Carroll, the Rockpile, Con Thien, and other locations along Highway 9 to the Laos border. I did the Hamburger Hill hike which was interesting. I also toured a lot of the Mekong and the former Iron Triangle. Those tunnel systems the NVA and VC used are really impressive. Also spent a day in the Citadel in Hue which is mostly rebuilt but was hard to believe was absolutely destroyed during the Tet Offensive.
Highly recommend it.
I was able to do a lot of the war tours, checked out the Hanoi Hilton, a lot of the museums in Hanoi where a lot of US equipment is displayed, the former palace and US embassy in Saigon etc. But also along the DMZ, Khe Sanh, Camp Carroll, the Rockpile, Con Thien, and other locations along Highway 9 to the Laos border. I did the Hamburger Hill hike which was interesting. I also toured a lot of the Mekong and the former Iron Triangle. Those tunnel systems the NVA and VC used are really impressive. Also spent a day in the Citadel in Hue which is mostly rebuilt but was hard to believe was absolutely destroyed during the Tet Offensive.
Highly recommend it.
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I visited several times, first in 1993, but not as a war tourist.
"Vietnam: More Than Just A War"