From right: Abdul, Mohammed and family members. (Mikael Cook) By Mikael Cook Over the last two weeks of August 2021, as the Taliban completed its conquest of Afghanistan, the United States military evacuated 79,000 people out of Kabul’s airport. It was a rescue operation that included thousands of Afghan allies desperate to
The Nguyen family in Saigon, March, 1975. Eva (Truc) is held by her father. (Eva Nguyen Whitfield) by Jason Nulton and Eva Nguyen Whitfield If not for their sons being in the same Boy Scout troop, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel Jason Nulton might never have heard his neighbor Eva Nguyen
The Final Days of South Vietnam, March-April 1975. (USA) by Todd DePastino In 1973, after the ceasefire of January 27 and the departure of the last remaining US combat troops on March 29, North Vietnam decided to play the long game. The country had been torn apart and its forces routed in
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, Commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 as the last American service member to leave Afghanistan. (U.S. Army MSgt. Alex Burnett) by Daria Sommers The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a human tragedy that came to an end at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in
Joe Boscia with his South Vietnamese counterparts, 1968. (Joe Boscia) Joseph Boscia, Captain, US Army, Vietnam 1968-69 I was thunderstruck on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, when someone came into my office in Philadelphia and told me Saigon had fallen. “All that blood. All that treasure. Both ours and the Vietnamese people’s,” I
President Ford meets with Graham Martin, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, Army Chief of Staff General Frederick Weyand, and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to discuss the situation in Vietnam, March, 1975. (National Archives) Written by Todd DePastino Saigon swelled with refugees as “Black April” 1975 ground toward
