Word: airfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before them the Northerners drove long, miserable columns of refugees, civilians, ARVN soldiers, the old and young, all terrified, struggling numbly south toward Saigon. The Communists shelled and machine-gunned some columns. The refugees stumbled on across the corpses and the dying. From the Danang airfield, the last plane took off with men clinging to the landing gear and stairs. Some who went aloft crouched in the wheel housings were crushed as the landing gear cranked up. Along the coast, ARVN soldiers deserted their families and in some cases shot civilians for a place on a boat...
...Communists closed in on Saigon. At last, on the 29th of April, they rocketed Tan Son Nhut, the huge airfield through which millions of American soldiers had passed over the years, coming into the war zone or going back to "the world." The last two Americans to die before Saigon's fall were killed in the attack: Marine Lance Corporal Darwin Judge and Marine Corporal Charles McMahon...
...coast to the outskirts of Saigon. Photographer Dirck Halstead, who was based in Saigon three times between 1965 and 1975 for United Press International and TIME, took prize-winning pictures of the frenzied crowds trying to escape Saigon in 1975 before leaving himself by helicopter from Tan Son Nhut airfield just before the city fell. His contemporary photographs of Viet Nam are part of this week's coverage...
...Anchorage and Fairbanks. The Government subsequently bought their land cheap ($100 an acre for cleared land, $75 for uncleared) but in so doing it changed their lives. By the time the road reached their area in 1967, Shorty Bradley had been dead a year and buried beside his private airfield. "We had a terrible time digging the grave because of the time of year," Marino recalls...
Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow his craft to put down at a U.S. military airfield could persuade Gromyko to overlook what he clearly regarded as an officially tolerated affront to Soviet dignity. In subsequent months, he demonstrated, by words and attitude, his own displeasure with...