⚔️📍 Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam1975
Last Americans Leave Vietnam — Saigon Falls
North Vietnamese forces completed their conquest of South Vietnam as the last Americans and thousands of South Vietnamese refugees were evacuated by helicopter from rooftops. The iconic images of helicopters pushing off the embassy marked America's defeat.
The fall of Saigon ended America's longest war up to that point and the first war it had lost, triggering a decade of national soul-searching and military reform.
Outcome
Vietnam unified under communist rule; 58,000 Americans had died