Grunts depart Vietnam as looters flood Saigon mess hall
North Vietnamese officers watch as 2,501 of the 23,500 U S troops depart Vietnam aboard 19 planes from Saigon and Da Nang. At Camp Alpha looters rush the mess hall, removing chairs tables and food as officers try to restore order.
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Wade
Camp Alpha
Vietam
Vietnam
U.S
James Owenby
Cleveland
Tenn
George Parrott
Taft
Calif
Camp
Alpha
Final American troops fly home from Vietnam postwar end
The last 68 fighting men exited Vietnam aboard a C 141 StarLifter, marking the final major redeployment as the U S military command ends. About 1,100 arrived in California, with 1,034 remaining in Vietnam, including 825 delegates to the Joint Military Commission.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Vietnam
U.S
San Francisco International Airport
Pan American Airline
Air Force
Richard Skinner
Springfield
Virginia
Southeast Asia
Joint Military Commission
Pris
Last U S Marines Leave Vietnam Endgame at Tan Son Nhut
Reports detail North Vietnam freeing 67 prisoners while 1 remains in Viet Cong hands in the south. At Saigon embassy, 159 Marine guards and 50 military attaches remain. Peak troop levels reached 543000 in 1969 with 45943 dead and 300640 wounded. U S Mercy Mission ends as M A C V Vietnam closes with final C141 departure from Tan Son Nhut. Air Force Col David Odell among those exiting, while North Vietnamese Lt Col Bui Tin offers peace in a symbolic parting.
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Air Force
Tan Son Nhut Gh
Saigon
da Neary
U.S
Vietnam
Joint Military Commission
North Vietnam
Bui Tin
Hanoi
Beilke
David Odell
Crystal Lake
Minn
Tan Son Nhut
Odell
Yeoman
Dennis Wade
el Paso
Tex
Camp Alpha
Leav
South
Travis
Max Beilke
Alexandria
Tin
Firm cleared in 1967 Alaska crash deaths
Ex ecutive Aircraft Corp of Indianapolis was absolved of responsibility for the deaths of three people in a 1967 private plane crash in Alaska. The Boone County suit sought 1.2 million dollars for alleged negligence involving Indianapolis executive Louis C. Wolf, his son William, and Jeff W. Brown of Noblesville.
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Lebanon, Ind
Executive Aircraft Corp
Indianapolis
Alaska
Boone County
Louis C. Wolf
William
Jeff W. Brown
Noblesville
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MACV
Vincent Jacobucci
New York
UPI
J.C. Edwin Johnson
Texarkana
Army
Claude Green
Swainsboro, Ga
Nam
Lara
Ien
Lane
Broyhill
Kroehler
Walnutham Cope
Daleville
Alisi
Cortin
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Herald
Allin
Ill
Dace McE
Tm’s
Chevron
Reg. U.S. Pat
Ortho Dealers
Anderson
Montgomery Ward
Mounds Mall
Scatterfield RD
Chesterfield
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