Operation Frequent Wind
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Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese People'
A South Vietnamese helicopter is pushed overboard from USS Okinawa to clear deck space for more incoming helicopters
US Air Force HH-53 helicopters on the deck of USS Midway during Operation Frequent Wind, April 1975
Ships of TF 76 wait off Vũng Tàu for the start of the operation
RVNAF C-130A burns at Tan Son Nhut after rocket attack on 29 April
22 Gia Long Street
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22 Gia Long Street, now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street, is an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In April 1975, photojournalist Hubert van Es, working for UPI, captured an iconic photo of U.S. go
Operation Frequent Wind
…Frequent Wind of an Air America UH-1 on a rooftop picking up Vietnamese evacuees. The building in the photo was the Pittman Apartment building at 22 Gia Long Street (now 22 Lý Tự Trọng Street), which was used as a residence by various embassy, CIA, and USAID employees. It has often been misidentified as the US…
The 22 Lý Tự Trọng building as seen in 2024, looking from the rear.
Facade of the building in 2019.
Top of the building, 2012.