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29 April aboard Air America air evacuation airborne aircraft airfield Ambassador Martin American Annex ARVN Attache Office compound Bien Hoa bombing buses carriers civilian Clark Clark AB command and control communications convoy coordination crew crowd Da Nang DAO building DAO compound Defense Attache Office Embassy escort Evacuation Control Center evacuation plan Evacuation Processing Center Figure final flew flight line ground fire Ground Security Force Helicopter Landing Zone L-hour Laehr large number Lieutenant Colonel loads Major General Smith Marine metropolitan Saigon Military Airlift Command Military Region Military Sealift Command moved Nang Nha Trang Nhut North Vietnamese Army Operation FREQUENT WIND Option orphans passengers personnel pilots problems ramp refugees Republic of Vietnam runway ships sorties South Vietnamese Air Special Planning Group staff Supervisor of Airlift Tan Son Nhut Thailand Tiger Ops USAF USMC USS Midway Vietnamese Air Force VNAF Vung Tau
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Stranica 1 - Its central thesis is that the United States will participate in the defense and development of allies and friends, but that America cannot — and will not — conceive all the plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions, and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world. We will help where it makes a real difference and is considered in our interest.
Stranica ix - May 8 brought about the breakthrough in October, and I said then that I did not want to speculate on North Vietnamese motives. I have too much trouble analyzing our own. I will give the same answer to your question, but I will say that there was a deadlock which was described in the middle of December, and there was a rapid movement when negotiations resumed on the technical level on January 3 (January 2) and on the substantive level on January 8. These facts have to be analyzed by each person for...
Stranica 1 - Its central thesis is that the United States will participate in the defense and development of allies and friends, but that America cannot— and will not— conceive all plans, design all the programs, execute all the decisions and undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world. We will help where it makes a real difference and is considered in our interest . . . [we will] insist that other nations play a role ... a necessary sharing of responsibility.
Stranica 111 - Saigon as the communications-and-control plane transmitted this message, in the clear, to all aircraft in the area: "The following message is from the President of the United States and should be passed on by the first helicopter in contact with Ambassador Martin. Only twenty-one lifts remain. Americans only will be transported. Ambassador Martin will board the first available helicopter and that helicopter will broadcast Tiger, Tiger, Tiger,' once it is airborne and en route.
Stranica 84 - Saigon time, or about 9:00 pm last night, Washington time. We then attempted to land C-130s, but found that the population at the airport had got out of control and had flooded the runways. It proved impossible to land any more fixedwing aircraft. The President thereupon ordered that the DAO personnel, together with those civilians that had been made ready to be evacuated, be moved to the DAO compound which is near Tan Son Nhut airport and at about...