I'm therefore asking the congress to appropriate without delay $722 million for emergency military assistance for South Vietnam. I thought of my friends who were killed in action and I thought, "Well, is this what we fought for? But instead, we got orders from the ambassador, to go to the embassy and be prepared to stay after the embassy evacuated. Many died of disease and starvation. It was amazing. So I kind of look up. Now we had to evacuate the Marines. Mark and Jennie Famiglio Copyright © 2020 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), all rights reserved. Well, he told the sailors to stand down and we continued down the river. Mike Sullivan, Marine Embassy Guard: The ramp is closing and I did what I was trained in my first tour. One, two, three, four, five, six... ten. Just go. They were just hoping desperately to get in. I had arranged a signal with my intelligence community friends that if I said, "I'm having a barbecue," that meant come to a certain pre-designated place and bring your families and only bring one suitcase because we're going to have a party. Richard Armitage Then the pilot flew out on our starboard right side. Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): So, we got his attention. He finally, reluctantly, gave the go-ahead for the final evacuation. Graham Martin, U.S.
So he lost everything. Le Nguyen Binh I jumped out, my brother jumped out.
Nobody is gonna be left behind. For Season 27 of American Experience, exclusive corporate funding is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance, major funding by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting …More. Sharon Nicholas I saluted in uniform as a captain of the United States Army.
My mom grabbed my little sister, who was about six months at that time and a little brother who was about three or four years old and myself. Terry McNamara, Consul General: I remember looking back at the sun setting over the Mekong Delta, which is a beautiful place, and thinking, "Well, I'll never see this again."
Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: That morning fear and desperation were the order of the day.
And we'll work together as a team.". Richard Nixon (archival): We today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam. Real high up. So we got the word out, you know, "We could use some help out here, we only have 75 helicopters." Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): Apparently one of the Vietnamese men pushed a girl.
Ambassador to South Vietnam (archival): 3:45…, Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: Colonel Madison says to me, "We're screwed. We had been told by people in our intelligence community that we might have as long as the 4th of May, but the North Vietnamese were closing in quite tightly, and clearly it was time to send the signal to leave. But now they had all these people. Bau Hoang To be perfectly honest with you, I'm really scared. embassy."
And you must help me come up with a plan to keep the Vietnamese Navy ships, given to us by the United States, out of the hands of the Communists. Terry McNamara, Consul General: That April I was in Can Tho, which was about 100 miles from Saigon. It was long enough to get us through the most dangerous part of the trip. Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): I really don't know where to start. He hovered there for like 10 minutes and we couldn't figure out what was doing and it turned out what he was doing was taking his flight suit off. You know, of course they took the money but they never got us. So he and some other pilots picked out the best Chinooks and took off. And I'm convinced that if we had sent them back or took them back they would have killed them all. Young officers in the embassy began to mobilize a black operation. And I said, "You two stay right with me.
But on the other hand, sometimes there are moments when good people have to rise to the occasion and do the things that need to be done.
Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): In the middle of the day, after we'd taken those first helicopters aboard, this huge helicopter called a Chinook.
Richard Armitage, Special Forces Advisor: I went aboard the Kirk and met with Captain Paul Jacobs.
And piles and piles of paper began coming out, and we began shredding. And uh…the two star general's nephew. Sgt. But he was doing his best under terrible circumstances. They were very patient. We're pulling up with the… people are falling off the air stairs! In many minds, this is how it is remembered, and this is what is reflected in the film. And down in the parking lot, I could see the group of 420 of them, they were right were we had left them marshaled on this little patch of grass. Staff Sgt. All rights reserved. He had been holding out hope that some kind of third-party solution could be worked out, so that South Vietnam could continue with some form of independence or autonomy. There actually were a couple including the deputy Air Force commander who put on civilian clothes and snuck on the boat. Marine Guard Juan Valdez tells his story. Salimah El-Amin During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. Robert Leal Hugh Doyle, Chief Engineer, USS Kirk (archival audio): They said, "There will be no pushing and there will be no shoving on this ship." And the solution was to reflag all these ships as American ships. It was a terrible, terrible, terrible moral dilemma for everybody. But there were still artillery fire. So, General Carey comes out, gives me an apple and a cup of coffee or something and says, "We're under orders from the president. The biggest concern, of course, was basically the North Vietnamese or what remnants of the VC were there would ambush us at the narrowest portion and basically we'd get our ass handed to us. He would have killed everybody on this helicopter plus my crew. Black Ops were essentially violating the rules. And not just Vietnamese naval ships but also civilian ships. He said, "I want to come out there, I want to see it." I had sung my anthem many times, but never before had I felt like I did on that day. Kiem Do, a colonel in the South Vietnamese Navy, remembers the solemn flag-lowering ceremony aboard the U.S.S. And uh, turned out that the pilot, he was the pilot for the deputy chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
Gerald Berry, Marine Pilot: About four in the morning, 4:30, I land on the USS Blue Ridge again.
And when we got there, it was teeming with people. You know, military officers and people of military age. Stuart Herrington, Army Captain: Major Kean came to Colonel Madison, said "No more. The embassy compound was the size of a city block. Polly Pettit Basically any boats, trucks, airplanes or anything going south were besieged by people wanting to get onboard. Binh Pho, College Student: I didn't join them. And then we drove down to where Terry McNamara was loading people onboard the landing craft.
They were unbelievable. Tim Chapin I was one of maybe two or three Americans. But that morning, Ambassador Martin received a message that said within 24 hours the U.S. presence in Vietnam had to be closed out. Kiem Do, Captain, South Vietnamese Navy (in Vietnamese, subtitled): The truth is, planning an evacuation was above my rank. So they just put one or two Americans on each one. We have been reducing the population here as measure of prudency and will take measures to reduce it further as a, as a question of prudence. By that time it made no big difference, but President Ford said he owed it to Vietnam to make a request. So she said, "We're going to exchange tapes." Approximately 5,000 Americans remained with roughly 24 hours to get out.
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