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Trying To Reach The Last Helicopter, 1975

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Photo of South Vietnamese civilians scaling the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as they try to catch the remaining flights out of Vietnam. Known as Operation Frequent Wind, evacuation helicopters were used to whisk the remaining Americans, as well as South Vietnamese, out of Saigon from the roof of the embassy, as North Vietnamese forces rolled in toward the city (now called Ho Chi Minh City), signifying the end of the Vietnam War.