Evacuation Of Vietnam Helicopter Roof

An iconic photograph of vietnamese evacuees climbing up a rickety wooden staircase to a helicopter on an apartment building roof the previous day is often misremembered as the last helicopter to.

Evacuation of vietnam helicopter roof.

Thursday marks the 40 year anniversary of the fall of saigon the end of america s war in vietnam. Evacuees from the dao compound are offloaded onto the u s. And in the days before the evacuation of saigon as word got out that the end was near air america pilots tested rooftops across the city for their ability to hold a helicopter and accommodate. An air america helicopter crew member helps evacuees up a ladder on the roof of 18 gia long street on april 29 1975 shortly before the city fell to advancing north vietnamese troops.

By 1974 the north vietnamese troops had violated the paris peace accords and had renewed their attack on the south. Navy aircraft carrier uss midway cva 41 during the evacuation of south vietnam operation. On that day as it had throughout the conflict cbs news covered the events from the ground. Marine corps sikorsky ch 53 sea stallion helicopter from hmh 463 at landing zone 39 a parking lot at ton son nhut air base in saigon vietnam 29 april 1975.

While thousands of american military personnel and citizens were evacuating in helicopters from the embassy roof thousands of others gathered outside the embassy walls hoping to make their way out. It was clear the republic of vietnam wou. Helicopters and buses were to shuttle people from the embassy to the dao compound. However in the course of the evacuation it turned out that a few thousand people were stranded at the embassy including many vietnamese.

Operation frequent wind was the final phase in the evacuation of american civilians and at risk vietnamese from saigon south vietnam prior to the takeover of the city by the north vietnamese people s army of vietnam pavn in the fall of saigon it was carried out on 29 30 april 1975 during the last days of the vietnam war more than 7 000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various. Hubert van es snapshot shows a military helicopter perched atop the us embassy in saigon as americans stream up a stairway desperately.