#BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM PBS SERIES#

Only hours later, looters ransack the embassy, and North Vietnamese tanks role into Saigon, ending the war.вЂќ At dawn, the last Marines of the force guarding the U.S. They are the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War. Marines are killed in a rocket attack at SaigonвЂ™s Tan Son Nhut airport.

embassy in Saigon as mistakenly thought.ДЄ timeline excerpt from the PBS program, вЂњBattlefield VietnamвЂќ:ДЄt 4:03 a.m., two U.S. The photo was taken at an apartment building, not the U.S. The photograph of people crammed on the stairs waiting to board the aircraft was shot from the roof of the UPI bureau, the British broadcaster said. He photographed the war between 19, working first for The Associated Press, then United Press International. citizens packed in a rooftop stairwell to board a helicopter during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. One of Van EsвЂ™s most recognized photographs shows U.S. helicopter evacuating people from Saigon. The front page from the Bennington (Vermont) Banner included the famous UPI photo by Hugh Van Es of a U.S. The broadcast reiterated that Saigon had been renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the late North Vietnamese leader. вЂ¦вЂќAt 11:30 (a.m.) on April 30, 1975, the flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of the Republic of South Vietnam fluttered above the palace of the puppet president and on other buildings in the city,вЂќ declared HanoiвЂ™s Vietnam News Agency, in a broadcast monitored in Tokyo. Gavin McFayden is a wonderful narrator and the music is enchanting and fits the era and overall feel of the series.

#BATTLEFIELD VIETNAM PBS SERIES#

The end of official American presence in the country came late Tuesday. Simply one of the best battlefield series that you will ever find on the Vietnam war. officials struggled with the logistics of resettling the estimated 45,000 South Vietnamese it helped evacuate from the country before the surrender. The Saigon government surrendered unconditionally today and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops occupied the capitalвЂ¦.And U.S. The Associated Press described the fall of Saigon: Page one news from The (Pennsylvania) Courier-Express: And the press was there when the war ended in 1975 as North Vietnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon. involvement in Vietnam during the late 1950s. The news media first began reporting on U.S. Although United States military involvement officially stopped in 1973, it was South VietnamвЂ™s surrender on Apthat marked the end of the Vietnam War.

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