The Longest War: Reporter's Notebook: Six Days in The Evacuation From Saigon: by Fox Butterfield Special to The New York Times

The Longest War: Reporter's Notebook: Six Days in The Evacuation From
Saigon: by Fox Butterfield Special to The New York Times

(EXCERPT) Aboard the USS Bule Ridge in the South China Sea, May 4 -
The last day began precisely at 4 A.M. On April 29, Saigon awoke to
the heaviest rocket attack of the war. First six rockets, then 22,
then dozens more slammed into Tan Son Nhut airport.

By the time I stopped counting at 6 A.M., 140 rockets had hit the
sprawling air base and the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff
headquarters adjoining it.

Several thousand Americans and Vietnamese waiting to be evacuated from
Tan Son Nhut by United States Air Force planes were trapped in the
barrage. So were the nearly 200 delegates of the Provisional
Revolutionary Government and of North Vietnam who lived in an old
United States Army compou...


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