The anniversary of the departure of the American army from Vietnam

March 29, 2013 marks the fortieth anniversary of the last American combat forces leaving Vietnam.

While the fall of Sigon two years later, with his uncomfortable images to evacuate helicopters, is remembered as the last day of the Vietnam War, March 29 in many ways, represents the anniversary that carries a greater meaning for many who fought, lived or lived in another way.

On March 29, 1973, the photo, Alpha Camp, Uncle Sam’s external center, was chaos in Seijon. Lines of bored soldiers give up customs rooms and a briefing destination.

American forces leave Vietnam

Surrounded by the luggage of other departure geographic information systems, the American Air Force pilot reads a normal cover novel as he is waiting to start processing in Alpha camp on the Saigon Tan Nuts Base in Saigon, March 27, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

Admiral John S. McCain Junior, Left, Son, Lieutenant CMDR. John S. McCain III, for the first time after McCain was released from the Vietnamese prisoner camp in Jacksonville, Florida, March 31, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

An American Gi takes a nap over his luggage on March 27, 1973, where he and the other forces are waiting to start treatment in Alpha camp in Cigon, while the American forces ‘withdrawal resumed after a 10 -day conflict over the prisoners’ prisoners.

American forces leave Vietnam

Jan ScroGGS, founder and head of the Vietnam Fund, Memorial Veterans, notes the place where Grass grows on the memorial of Vietnam the veterans in Washington on September 9, 2009.

American forces leave Vietnam

Vietnamese businessman Tony Lam shows a picture at his factory at the Dong Fung Factory in Little Sigon in Westminster, California, March 28, 2013.

Lam 36 was the day when the last American combat forces left Vietnam. He was a young husband and father, but most importantly, he was an American businessman and contractor who praised the dried rice of the Southern Vietnamese forces. In 1992, Lam made history by becoming the first American Vietnamese to be elected to the general position in the United States, and he continued to work in the Westminster City Council for 10 years.

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The American flag is washed at a ceremony specifying the abolition of the commander of military aid in Vietnam in Cigon after more than 11 years in southern Vietnam, March 29, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

The last 55 soldiers to leave Vietnam Deppine Air Force C-141 at the Travis Air Force Base on March 30, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

A foreign visitor looks at the remains of an American fighter plane in the land of the Military History Museum in Hanoi, March 29, 2013.

American forces leave Vietnam

General Alexander M. Haig, Acting Ambassador Charles Whitech, and another official at the embassy after Haij arrived in Cigon, April 10, 1973, the last station in his tour of marriage in India. The trip was made at the request of President Richard Nixon.

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The veteran in the Vietnam War is Van Minh, about his experience as a northern Vietnamese soldier during the war at the Military History Museum in Hanoi, March 28, 2013.

The 77 -year -old lost his right leg to a ground mine as he advanced on Seijon, just one month before that city fell.

American forces leave Vietnam

Fitt Kong monitors in the Four Joint Party Military Committee calculate the American forces while they are preparing on the plane plane at Tan Note Sigon Airport on March 28, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

One of the last remaining river boats that the US Navy uses during the Vietnam War is raised from the marine support base display at the Patriotz Point naval and marine museum in Mount Plezant, SC, March 26, 2013. The boat goes to a boat for a month for $ 30,000 in repairs.

American forces leave Vietnam

The Alpha camp, Uncle Sam, was a chaos in Saigon. Lines of bored soldiers give up customs rooms and surround March 29, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

At the end of my curiosity to a strange conflict, American forces planes under the eyes of observers in the northern Vietnamese and Viet Kong in Saigon March 29, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

President Richard Nixon and Southern Vietnamese President Naguin Van Theo listens to the national anthem during thetioles in the western White House arrival in San Clemente, California, April 2, 1973.

American forces leave Vietnam

The veteran in the Vietnam War is Van Minh, about his experience as a northern Vietnamese soldier during the war at the Military History Museum in Hanoi, March 28, 2013.

American forces leave Vietnam

Daniel Ellsburg, the defendant participating in the Pentagon’s papers, speaks with correspondents on April 12, 1973, after he witnessed it in Los Angeles. Next to his wife, Patricia. Elsberg, who clearly described his journey to disappointment in Vietnam, will strike that story by telling jury how his government profession risked the Pentagon’s papers, hoping to end the war.

American forces leave Vietnam

A bird sits in a cage overlooking the American B-52 bomber in Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 29, 2013. The plane was shot down during the Vietnam War, and the engine fell in the lake.

American forces leave Vietnam

Vic Kong and Northern Vietnamese members in the Joint Military Committee, introducing pictures of American forces while climbing to the Air Force plane from the Sigon Tan Note Air Force Base on March 27, 1973.

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