Summary
One of the most arresting images from the last days of the Vietnam War shows an unruly crowd rushing the door of a plane in Nha Trang, a rural seaside city north of Saigon. The focal point of the photograph is a balding, middle-aged American who is landing a jab to the head of a Vietnamese man desperate to board.
The American is all grim determination - his jaw is clenched as he lunges right, extending his arm like a ramrod into the face of the intruder. Resolute in the crush of bodies, he is a bulwark in the bedlam of a turbulent era's violent finale.See the full content of this document
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Pilot Who Went to the Rescue in Vietnam
The caption accompanying the UPI photo identified him only as an American official, but he was actually a charter pilot hired by the St...
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