South Vietnam's Top General Flees to the US: The Army Abandons the War
General Cao Van Vien, South Vietnam's top military commander, secretly boarded a flight to the United States as North Vietnamese divisions closed on Saigon. His departure left the South Vietnamese armed forces without senior leadership in their final hours, symbolizing the total disintegration of a military that the U.S. had spent billions to build.
April 28, 1975
51 years ago
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