29th April 1975: Operation Frequent Wind evacuates over 1,000 American civilians and 6,000 Vietnamese from Saigon using helicopters

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The largest ever helicopter evacuation lasted for 19 hours and involved 81 helicopters shuttling the evacuees to US Navy ships moored in the South China ...