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44-year ago On 29 April 1975, A Vietnam Air Force pilot Major Buang-Ly performed a  historic O-1 Bird Dog landing aboard USS Midway to save his family. Vietnamese Air Force Major Bung-Ly made the decision to load his family — his wife and five children — into a small two-seat …

In the final year of the Vietnam War, a series of offensives by the North Vietnamese led to the fall of the South Vietnamese capital Saigon on April 30, 1975. One of the most iconic images from the fall of Saigon did not happen in Saigon. It happened at sea …