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PAGE 2: A Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter of the US Army. PAGE 3: South Vietnamese refugees walk across a U.S. Navy vessel. Operation Frequent Wind, the final operation in Saigon began April 29, 1975. During a nearly constant barrage of explosions, the Marines loaded American and Vietnamese civilians, who feared for their lives onto helicopters that took them to waiting aircraft carriers. The Navy vessels transported them to the Philippines and eventually to Camp Pendleton, California. RIGHT: A Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook arrives on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Hancock (CVA-19) during Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of South Vietnam, in April 1975. The CH- 47 was most probably from the Vietnam Air Force, although it wears the tail code "YH" of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463), which was based on the Hancock for Operation Frequent Wind. PAGE 6: A US Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter rests on a recently installed landing mat at a mountaintop fire support base. The base was under construction by members of the U.S. 3rd Marine Division.

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