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Wreckage of what is likely 1940-41 Ford Super Deluxe ‘Woody,’ in the hangar deck of USS Yorktown. (Courtesy of NOAA Ocean ...
The event aboard the USS Midway commemorated the anniversary of Operation Frequent Wind rescues and the fall of Saigon that ...
On April 19 and 20, NOAA Ocean Exploration explored the final resting place of USS Yorktown, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ...
Tuesday will mark 50 years since the USS Midway was called into action on April 29, 1975, when Saigon was falling and U.S. military leaders launched Operation Frequent Wind — the largest helicop ...
The USS Midway took part in one of its most daring missions in history, Operation Frequent Wind, and became the first stop to freedom for more than 3,000 Vietnamese refugees that began April 29 ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Tuesday will mark 50 years since the USS Midway was called into action on April 29, 1975, when Saigon was falling and U.S. military leaders launched Operation Frequent Wind ...
The 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon this week will trigger complex and mixed emotions for those who lived through it.
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 ...
Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...
Fifty years ago, thousands were evacuated from Vietnam to safety aboard the USS Midway. One of them was Hugh Nguyen, who was just a seven at the time. Now he's the Orange County Clerk-Recorder.
At the center of it all was the USS Midway. Retired Commander Vernon Jumper, a 93-year-old San Diego resident, was the "air ...
NOAA Ocean Exploration sent a remotely operated camera inside the USS Yorktown on April 19 and ... by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. The mission was the first ...