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Submitted by Frank Stoddard (ACS) I just read an article about my 1960 travel to Vietnam as a 16 year old. An ole family friend had this Anaconda, Montana article that I never knew existed. Now what I really want to talk about is my military service time in Vietnam, and not so much about […] June 6th, 2018 | Category: Frank Stoddard, Frank Stoddard, Saigon Kids Stories, Saigon Kids Today, TET 1968, Vietnam War | 3 comments 40th anniversary since the Last Flight Out of Saigon. Gripping stories you’ll enjoy reading by those who lived it … […] It started about 1:30 Friday (wee hours of that morning your time). I was out for my French lesson not too far from home when the tutor said – “Is that firecrackers?” And we casually said “yes” but thought they were banned, except for new years. It was the starting of the coup (pronounced “coo”). Her husband [the tutor’s] called & said there was heavy artillery fire on the river. […] March 14th, 2015 | Category: 1963 Coup, Karen Klingenhagen (ACS), Karen Klingenhagen (ACS), Palace Bombings, Saigon Kids Stories | 3 comments In the spring of 1964, the Navy presented me, as an officer in the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps, with orders to the Naval Support Activity Saigon. I arrived June 19th and went through the standard orientation, including at least one impressive talk by General Westmoreland. […] March 14th, 2015 | Category: Brinks Hotel/BOQ, Jim Christenson (USN), Saigon Stories, Vietnam War | 4 comments Submitted by Jim Cooper (ACS) Evacuation at Tan Son Nhut. Jim, Tom and Mrs. Cooper. Circa February 11, 1965. Jim Cooper Collection. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE. For many of us, this particular February 8th (2015) is the 50th anniversary of our Evacuation from Saigon — an exciting, nostalgic, and formative event which capped off […] February 7th, 2015 | Category: 1963 Coup, ACS History, Capital Kinh Do, Evacuation February 8, 1965, Jim Cooper, Jim Cooper, Kinh Do Theater, Palace Bombings, Tom Cooper | 31 comments |
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