Tag Archives: The hero pilot of Vietnam: Unearthed footage of the fall of Saigon shows desperate father throwing his wife and children onto U.S. ship – then jumping out as he ditched helicopter

The following U.S. Navy video, called “The Lucky Few”, tells the nearly forgotten story of the incredible CH-47A Chinook mission flown by Maj Ba Van Nguyen to save his family Daring escape story from the 1975 Fall of Saigon Vietnamese pilot loaded family onto the helicopter and tailed U.S. choppers …