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USS Midway Museum commemorates 50 years since Operation Frequent Wind
Tuesday will mark 50 years since the USS Midway's involvement in the largest helicopter evacuation in history.
USS Midway Museum commemorates 50th anniversary of Fall of Saigon
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The USS Midway hosted a day of courage and remembrance Sunday. It was one of the largest and most ...
Thousands commemorate heroic Vietnam War rescues of 1975 in USS Midway event
The event aboard the USS Midway commemorated the anniversary of Operation Frequent Wind rescues and the fall of Saigon that ...
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50 years later: San Diego’s USS Midway and the fall of Sàigòn
The war in Vietnam ended with the fall of Sàigòn 50 years ago, changing the course of many lives — from those who served, to ...
South Vietnamese pilot and family escape Saigon with daring flight and help of USS Midway
His country had fallen. The enemy was approaching. South Vietnamese Air Force Maj. Buang-Ly knew his life and the lives of his wife, and their five young children, ages 1 through 6, were in danger as ...
San Diego Union-Tribune10d
Thousands commemorate heroic Vietnam War rescues of 1975 in USS Midway event
(Photo by Sandy Huffaker for The San Diego Union-Tribune) Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans flooded the USS Midway’s flight deck Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of ...
50 years later | USS Midway Air Boss reflects on mission that saved more than 3,000 lives
At the center of it all was the USS Midway. Retired Commander Vernon Jumper, a 93-year-old San Diego resident, was the "air ...
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How the USS Midway saved 3,100 Viet evacuees and one brave pilot, 50 years ago
Sunday, at the USS Midway Museum, Chambers was greeted as a hero. That’s because at the end of April 1975 he made room there for thousands fleeing war to start new lives in the United States.