Saigon's Last Day

Vietnamese evacuees arrive on the deck of the USS Midway in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon.

If you had been present in Saigon on the day the U.S. evacuated its embassy, you would understand why the U.S. mission in South Vietnam went on for so long. You would also understand why the mission failed. That day, April 29-30, 1975, laid ba…