This is what it means when they say “history repeats itself “. Kabul 2021.

@jude1515

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately.

@ziofanale3853

2 жыл бұрын

Only the stupidity of the politicians remains the same

@pseudospike3152

2 жыл бұрын

But Biden said in now way would there be any similarities between the two??? (As I watch video of South Vietnamese clinging to landing gear)

@willieboy8798

2 жыл бұрын

i was in saigon in 1973 ....you dont know what your talking about ....look at your history! veitnam filed international bankrupcy 1980 and russia in 1986 ...kabul taliban are broke 30 days later....in case your business calculator batteries are low that is 5 years later and ten years later. sounds to me like we got better at something. remember afganistan has a huge drug trade.....wheres the beef!!! lol

@danielpepe6223

Ай бұрын

Thank Biden for that zfissco

Wow! Is this Ironic? Before it was C130’s evacuating thousands from Saigon, Now, it’s C17’s evacuating thousands from Kabul. “He who endures with patience is the conqueror.”

@billyferal5558

2 жыл бұрын

Yep Ford and Biden 2 of the most weak and embarrassing presidents this country has ever had

@nonegone7170

2 жыл бұрын

@@billyferal5558 Maybe stop invading countries?

Watching this now in light of what’s going on in Afghanistan 😓

I was a senior in high school taking an advanced study elective on the war. We were supposed to take final exams that day, but they were cancelled so we could watch the footage from Saigon.

@cindyinnew

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I remember staying home to watch this

As a Vietnamese i would like to say : why this video doesn't on my youtube recommendation sooner ? Thanks for the video, this video is a true footage about Saigon back then

@KeithWilliamMacHendry

4 жыл бұрын

What was the onslaught like Green Paulo? I was two months short of 15 in my native Scotland, we only received a US view point, which we naturally supported.

@mikethompson6713

4 жыл бұрын

I was there. USS Midway

@greenpaulo2935

4 жыл бұрын

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry Well the Northern army ( which is the Vietcong ) decided to have a big battle that could end the war forever. So they held a huge attack on the US embassy at Hue city and then approach Saigon ( which is the capital of the south and it called Ho Chi Minh City nowadays). The US army fought with everything they got and because the battle was happening in Tet ( one of the most important holiday in Vietnam ) so the Vietnamese southern army have to give their soldiers a holiday. Without the support of the southern army , US army literally fighting against one of the most elite army forces back then on themselves.

@greenpaulo2935

4 жыл бұрын

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry After the Battle, the Vietcong failed to take over Hue and Saigon, basically they lost. But the casualties of the US army was HUGE. That was just like the surface. But you can research about the battle and the war on the internet. Trust me the thing i said was just the top of an iceberg

@greenpaulo2935

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikethompson6713 As a person who knows different viewpoints from both side : US government and the vietnam government. I just wanna said that the war was brutal and nothing can able to compare the destruction of the battle. You was one many US navy soldiers had fought for the freedom of the southern Vietnam. Although the south fell but i just want to say Thank you and honor you as one of the bravest soldiers. Once again Thank You for your contributions. God bless you🙏🙏

I was the Marine Crew Chief of the helicopter YF-7, seen at the 34:18 mark, taking one of my loads of people to safety that day. I made 4 trips in to get people out that day. Semper FI.

Thank you for this video. I was a Marine on Okinawa when this happened. I was originally TAD to 1/9th Marine Regiment. For some reason by the Grace of GOD I was told to return to my unit along with several Marines, before the USS Blue Ridge left White Beach Okinawa. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sgt...OUT

@paulsuprono7225

Жыл бұрын

Semper Fi 🇺🇸

@usmc-veteran7316

Жыл бұрын

@@paulsuprono7225 I hear ya. Were you in the Marine Corps?

@CrossOfBayonne

7 ай бұрын

Semper Fi dude

@usmc-veteran7316

7 ай бұрын

@@CrossOfBayonne I hear ya 1st Mar Div.

Same things happened today in Afghanistan

Most of us that faught in Vietnam, didn't even know WHERE the country was, or WHY we were in the war when we went...I only knew that others went to other wars when their country called them, and I looked at this as my DUTY for me to answer the call to go to this one! Anything else would be TOTALLY UNAMERICAN AND UNPATRIOTIC!! I was really taken back to see so many of my freinds looking for ways to get out of their duty to serve their country, and SO MANY other american's deserting their govt at such a vital time!

@KelleyBroussardMackaig

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Skipper - my name is Kelley Broussard (I am the daughter of Retired Master Seargent Colin Broussard @44:10.) I just want to say that as the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran myself - I know that your service, sacrifices and patriotic bravery were never really truly appreciated let alone appropriately acknowledged. I was born five years after the Fall of Saigon, and like so many other Vietnam Vets - my dad was just relentlessly haunted by the unspeakable tragedies that he experienced during the Fall of Saiogon. Up until the day he passed away, he suffered with so much that he just couldn't seem to find a way to forgive himself for... I know that far too many of you returned home to a grossly ungrateful country. Many of you were spitefully disparaged by your very own fellow American citizens, some of who shouted derogatory names at you, and some who had the audacity to actually spit in your faces. There was literally no recognition or support for the devastation that you, my dad and the rest of our Vietnam Vets had just been through, nor sympathies or real acknowledgments for the brothers in arms who were killed and had to be left behind. This is why I believe with every fiber of my being that it is you, my dad and every last one of our Vietnam Veterans - that are some of the finest warriors God has ever put on this earth. Never in all of America's history has there ever been a war where it's veterans had to know and feel the pain of their country’s insurmountable rejection, while having to carrry on with their live's in the wake of a war's horrific aftermath. Nobody should ever have to know what that is like. So please just allow me to say to you and to any other Vietnam Veterans who might be reading this... My family and I proudly honor you, and we'll always appreciate and acknowledge the tremendous service and sacrifices that each and every Veteran of the Vietnam War so valiantly made. Celebrating and acknowledging all of our Vietnam Veterans whom we are so gratefully and humbly indebted to. Today, yesterday, and always. As for me... Well... Let me just say that some people only dream of getting to one day meet their hero's. I was raised by mine. RIP MSgt Colin D. Broussard - USMC Retired - Operation Frequent Wind. #SemperFi

The host's personal experiences added such a unique human element to this fascinating and difficult period in our history.

As a Vietnamese i feel sorry for our people and country constantly in war and hardship.

@cindyinnew

3 жыл бұрын

I understand why you do. Godspeed

Read the book “ The Last Man Out” the fall of Saigon! Way more about the fall of the city.

@annieseaside

3 жыл бұрын

Superb book. Wish it were required reading for American History Students.

@jglenn5024

2 жыл бұрын

I think I'll do that.

@azia5051

2 жыл бұрын

Hope those poor souls who died in the war in 1960s and even 1970s, will be all rest.

It sucks seeing all those people affected by a senseless conflict. Grown men crying hopefully they made it here to the land of the free and home of the brave 🇺🇲🗽

@waynesilverman3048

28 күн бұрын

Yes James ,the misery in the surviver s faces

I have this Documentary series which I taped on VHS Tape and converted to DVD from television during the first airing of this series "Vietnam the Soldiers Story" on The Learning Channel back in 1998. There is one episode missing from this series called The Unseen Enemy the Battle of Dak To which in my opinion was the most riveting of this excellent series on the Vietnam War. The only difference between the episodes that I taped back in 1998 from what is uploaded here is this (These episodes are more graphic and they show more of the human carnage than did the Learning Channel when they aired the series on national television back in 1998. These uploaded versions are slightly longer than the television versions also.

@low-keyrighteous9575

2 жыл бұрын

I wish that one on dak to was here I've watched all of them and know I'll watch them again . These series have taught and explained the Vietnam war to me differently in ways that I can understand things differently . Wonderful documentary on the Vietnam war... If anyone knows anymore recordings if the Vietnam war let me know please . Thank you Vietnam vets for all your bravery and courage throughout this war . Our military showed our nations heart and strength in our fighting throughout. God bless all our men who fought in this war and all our female nurses that assisted our men .

@Rohliable

Жыл бұрын

I think there was a PBS programme called Vietnam: A Television History which was more visually intense showing destroyed limbs and body parts. Parental guidance suggested.

Watch this now in 2021... Just as the exact same thing is unfolding in Kabul, Afghanistan.

@misterbig9025

2 жыл бұрын

Is it true the girls are screaming in Afghanistan as they are forcibly assaulted?

This is what happens when you let politicians run a war. We still haven’t learned. Thank you to all who served in the Vietnam war. You are truly heroes.

@David-og7di

3 жыл бұрын

When don't politicians run wars???? You think the soldiers set policy. I agree though. Many military echelons were hobbled but that was what the cold war was....Sabre rattling . In VN and Indochina all that futility cost millions of lives.

@David-og7di

3 жыл бұрын

Btw....I promise you this....no soldier sets out to be a hero....just to survive and be there for his mates. In doing this heroic acts are done. Mostly one is terrified, horrified & drunk and high in between.

@johnrogan571

3 жыл бұрын

Jane Fonda 1...us servicemen...zeros

@smilefaceofbengal

2 жыл бұрын

thats what happen when pick a fight with the people of a country,rather than with its army.american army attacked the people of vietnam,not its army.

@viktoriaironpride4977

2 жыл бұрын

"Hero" is probably the most overused term of all time. Rather than being "heroes," a huge number of American troops in Vietnam were rapists, druggies, child murderers and slaughterers of non-combatants. They deserve NO "thanks for their service." (See "Kill Anything That Moves.")

This is still hard to watch 45 years later.

I remember reading an article about the fall of Saigon written by someone who was there as it happened (it was Hunter S. Thompson, if memory serves), and the chaos and unravelled plans were beginning to get right on top of even the brass. Calling what went on with the Vietnamese people who had been working, at significant personal risk, for the US Army "broken promises" isn't quite accurate. "Blatant lies" would be the tightest of describing it. They promised literally _thousands_ of South Vietnamese a new life in the US, all the while knowing that they were only going to be able to take the percent of them, tops. What the fate of these "collaberators" would have been once Saigon fell to the Communists doesn't bear thinking about. Edit: Oh god, that C-5 that crashed! All those babies. 😭 Edit 2: "You had to respect Ambassador Martin, he kept his cool". Well, that's _one_ way of putting it. _Another_ way is the the Ambassador stubbornly refused to accept the grim reality of the situation right up until the moment the president had no option but to _order_ him to leave. A man "keeping his cool" does not discover, once the dust has settled, that others have had to make clandestine evacuation plans behind his back.

@azia5051

2 жыл бұрын

Who is watching this in 2021?! I am.

@haiwatigere6202

2 жыл бұрын

@@azia5051 just comparing it to Kabul

@user-ml3dp9hq7o

2 жыл бұрын

@@azia5051 2022 now today 5-6-22 unbelievable wht went on there !!

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

"Broken promises on weapons & money to destroy Saigon" is just a stupid excuse of the defeated puppets of the US. The documentary "The Vietnam war" wrote: "With the weapons left by the US in 1973, the VC can fight US to the end of the century.", or the film "The 10,000 day' war" also said: "If you put weapons around them (Saigon army) , only a gust of wind will destroy the Saigon army, because there is nothing inside." Victory or defeat is not determined by weapons !

@NamNguyen-df7hk

Жыл бұрын

@@thuankhong run away men liar !

A sad ending to a sad story....plenty of blame to go around and always someone to lay it on,but look at Vietnam today, regardless.Times have changed,though some things,never do,for all sides concerned.Thanks for the upload.

@aman4peace

4 жыл бұрын

It is today part of a working economy I will go there Next year to meet a teacher I been friends with who is Vietnamese teaches English therein Hanoi hope to meet a couple I been with helping them with there English who are young students

@user-zj3ij6bg8b

4 жыл бұрын

I hope war will never happen again in the world and in my beloved Vietnamese.

@cedricliggins7528

3 жыл бұрын

Llllllllllllllll

@David-og7di

3 жыл бұрын

Its turned into a suburb of China, along with Laos & Cambodia. The Chinese ruin everything they put their filthy hands on. These lovely countries have quiet enclaves of peace that hints at the beauty it once had but largely it's all played out.

@cindyinnew

3 жыл бұрын

@@David-og7di it’s a very dirty place. Raw sewage is polluting its beautiful waters and there is trash everywhere. Most of Vietnam has no trash service and recycling is unheard of. The plastic cheap flip flops are discarded in their waters and are backing up everywhere.

what an awesome series.

This is the best documentary that I have seen on the evacuation of Vietnam. Thanks.

@michealtull9033

4 жыл бұрын

@Thomas Morningstar I was still in the service in 73 and to the best of my knowledge it was deiscalating but there was still fighting going at least in may of 1973 .

It never ends, one place to another.

@David-og7di

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to 100 years of US Foreign policy

@rodneydavis9230

2 жыл бұрын

Because our government loves war. It's a money maker for them. Also something to twist and campaign on

@thornil2231

Жыл бұрын

money to be made

Wow i remember watching these episodes brings back memories

My brother was there in 69+70 in Dang was a marine 3rdbatallion he passed away on April 30 /2013 the 38th anniversary of the fall of Saigan. We still miss him he was a delayed victim of Agent Orange.

@mrlodwick

2 жыл бұрын

May he be blessed.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Thousands of children, victims of Agent Orange are still not "helped" by the US, not to mention compensated

excellent documentary! I was in Vietnam in Feb 2020 from the top to the bottom. I really loved these people, they were so kind. As for the war, many have put in behind them and are more focused on their economy. They want to open up there country and everyone is welcome. I think vets should go back, see how the country is changed and hopefully bring closure

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

We want that too, so that people who are still bitter about failure feel "it's okay to lose".

Mr jack Smith, bless you for your service.

This nation never ever learns from the past.

@SungSam-hq8yl

3 ай бұрын

De Javu😊

very good documentary! thanks a lot.

@josephcontreras8930

2 жыл бұрын

I look for and buy these dvd docs of na m anywhere I see them. I'm a eternal student of military history.

Thank you

Excellent program.

great series !!

Oh how history is repeating itself. Just replace the words Viet-Nam with Afghanistan and add 47 yrs.

@calbob750

2 жыл бұрын

I’m guessing that in both wars we had allegiance from the country’s military because of large quantities of military technology and $$$. Russia learned a lesson in Afghanistan in the eighties aided by CIA sourced SAMs. Ironically, in Kabul the Russian and Chinese embassies are still open.

this is a good one

Was really hard to see the plane with all those babies go down. Truth can be really harsh sometimes but hiding it from the world doesn't do anyone any good. Thanks to all the men and women and their families for the sacrifices you have made. You all have a special place in a lot of people's hearts. God Bless

In all my 59 years I did not know about the plant crashing with all the people and orphans. My god....

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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when the army of a country fight with another army, may win or loose, when an army of a country fight with the people of a country , you always loose.

I have watched this documentary before, I can’t remember if I commented so if I contradict myself I apologise. The most disturbing thing that came out of the war in Vietnam is that the political leadership of the USA didn’t learn that a) politicians should NEVER interfere with the military when they are fighting a war, the war in Vietnam was lost as soon as LBJ and R McNamara started dictating how, when, and where the battles were fought, in the air, on the ground and at sea b) if you are going to insert yourselves into and between the combatants and politicians of a country you have got to prosecute it with every asset you have (except WOMDs) and understand the enemy, militarily, politically, economically and to what lengths they are prepared to go to in order to achieve THEIR objectives, not your own, their objectives need to be destroyed and then, if it’s the will of the victorious nation implement your objectives, if they don’t want or like what you propose then leave them to it, any sovereign nation has the right to determine their way forward, in Vietnam the USA and allies tried to westernise the south, that’s NOT what they wanted, both sides wanted a unified Vietnam, the north under a communist doctrine and the south in their traditional ways, they didn’t want Coke,Levi jeans, and gas guzzling cars, in reality they wanted peace and harmony restored c) if your going to fight in someone else’s war be prepared to have mass casualties, huge military budgets and most importantly realise that you could actually LOOSE, firepower doesn’t always win the day. These, in my opinion are lessons that the USA didn’t learn at the time, or after south Vietnam had won, and then repeated those mistakes in gulf war 2 and Afghanistan, in gulf war 1 the objectives of the coalition forces were simply to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait, they did that and then withdrew as many forces as possible to placate the gulf states that didn’t want the western nations coalition forces in the region. In Afghanistan the mistakes of Vietnam were repeated, and the coalition forces didn’t achieve THEIR objectives, spreading western ideals and economics is not what the Afghani people wanted, yes they wanted the Taliban gone, Al-Qaeda gone, and insurgents gone, so they could go back to THEIR way of life, NOT ours. It’s truly saddening that 50+ thousand service personnel lost their lives, and untold numbers of both physical and psychological casualties, and for what?, in the end the answer for me is NOTHING, not one of the United States, allied forces, or the south Vietnamese objectives were achieved, and then when the north Vietnamese forces were about to unite the two halves of Vietnam the United States and Allied forces just went home, the Vietnam war was a disgraceful war for the United States, but it was more disgraceful that most of western world didn’t take up arms to defend the south Vietnamese, and that until they were shown on a map most didn’t even know where Vietnam was, and those that did probably thought it was just another country thousands of miles away that wasn’t worth helping, and why????, because there wasn’t anything worth protecting. Well that’s my spleen vented and soapbox put away, my version of War and Peace written, and please remember these are MY opinions and anyone is entitled to disagree, and I would happily debate them, however if all you want is to hurl insults and derogatory comments then.............. DILLIGAF. 😀😡🤬🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and a big thumbs up 👍 for the documentary upload, even my second time viewing it was interesting and informative. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍/10.

@TenderQWERTY

Жыл бұрын

Well to be fair I think people tend to overlook the bigger picture when they talk about the Vietnam War. I can sit here and talk about the 1973 Paris Peace Accords where the NVA agreed too, among other things, the right to self-determination of the South, to hold a vote, and to not use military force to unite the country. We could circle jerk every other point people on Quora and KZread like to make. Like the US government actually caring what it’s population thinks, or some other dumb made up shit like, “It was the US’s goal to stop the south from becoming communist.” The truth of it is that the mission of MAG-V in Vietnam before the assassination of the Diem Brothers in 1963 was identical to the mission of K-MAG in the Republic of Korea which was George Marshall's doctrine of nation building as a Military Solution. After the assassination's of the Deim Brothers, which was orchestrated by a right wing junta that was dedicated to the proposition that nation building was for pussies, the strategy of the US shifted to a battle of attrition against the Soviet economy by proxy. This was based, in part, on George Kennan’s observation that Marxism is a decadent agenda and they wouldn’t be able to keep pace with the capacity for renewal of American constitutional capitalism. This turned out to be true because by 1970, the administration of the USSR was unable to hide the cracks in the soviet economy and it was obvious to Brezhnev and Mao that Marxism was untenable. this led to the Nixon-Brezhnev Détente and the Mao-Nixon “Leaky umbrella” summit. Because of Vietnam, the USSR is no more and Vietnam has evolved from it’s Soviet Marxism puppet roots to some weird mix of Free Enterprise Marxism that is clunky and has a lot of corruption, but hey they have skyscrapers now. Russia is stuck at an unhealthy Free Market phase between Soviet Marxism and a Russian version of market capitalism. While China adopted the Harvard MBA business model and is now neither fish nor fowl and largely paralyzed by the ideological insecurities of a neo-peasant consumer society based on a Dilbert performance archetype. That's why right now, at the date of this posting, they have tanks rolling down the streets, and government thugs attacking protesters, outside of the banks that completely screwed people out of their money after there Ponzi scheme of housing investment fell apart. We can sit and argue the morality of it, but the sad truth was by 1970 what happened in Vietnam was no longer a concern to the US, because it was already becoming the big dick super power it is today. All it needed to do was to continue to cause the USSR to spend money. Since almost 80% of Vietnams economy at the time was literally USSR foreign aid, once the USSR fell apart, Vietnam would fall too. Which happened in the late 80’s forcing the Vietnamese to withdraw their attacks from Thailand and out of Cambodia. With no more support from the USSR, Hanoi resorted to calling the international community for food aid as Vietnamese began to starve in the northern parts resorting to eating seed stocks. Afghanistan was no different. Afghanistan, historically, was being used as a hotbed for groups to undermine the security of western nations. When the Taliban refused to oust Al Qaeda a coalition went in a removed them from power. Then they set up their own government. This government was more than clunky and it was very corrupt, but hey, at least they aren't planning on flying planes into buildings. Once the Taliban finally agreed to keep Afghanistan free of these groups the US signed a treaty with them and left. Why? Because who cares what the Taliban does in a religious shithole on the other side of the world as long as they keep groups that seek to undermine the US or it's allies from operating on afghan soil. You can say it's fucked up, and sure you can make valid arguments, but the truth is countries will always act in their own self interests.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

war is just a continuation of politics .politicians should decide war or not

1 of the saddest moments not only in US history, but world history. Thx for the upload of a very important event

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

It was the happiest and proudest moment of the Vietnamese people won after nearly a hundred years of fighting for an independent Vietnam, freed from foreign domination.

Bung Ly, in my opion, is a true hero for landing a plane on a carrier WITHOUT a tail hook!

@tommyawton8931

3 жыл бұрын

Opinion*

@miltonhollis703

2 жыл бұрын

Wife and five children' it brought a Tear to My Eye"

@josephcontreras8930

2 жыл бұрын

Desperation breeds miracles.....

I remember that I was ten years old I've become older now and have been in the army went to war I don't know where time has gone? Life is a funny thing I now set in a room all alone most of the time wondering will my kids call me today? Will I see tomorrow? What does life have for me if I do get up tomorrow? But I also try to take a little time each day to think back to the people who have come before me and how life was also never the same after this war and all the one's before that I seen them as my heroes always will they did what was ask of them, I know people hate war I do myself but the people that was there? Have given up there lives even if they come back nothing is ever going to be the same................. God bless you 🙏😇❣️💟 all.

@michaelowens3353

4 жыл бұрын

@Jim 762 much love brother keep safe the wolfs are out there love you man thanks for your service.

@jlv61560

4 жыл бұрын

I hear you, Mike. I was 15 when this happened, and later joined the USAF and fought in the Panama and the Persian Gulf. I can't even imagine this tragedy. It seems like only yesterday, but here I am, 60 years old and wondering where all the time went. But you know? Life is beautiful, and every day is a gift that God gives us to enjoy. Look out the window, see the trees and the grass, a child playing in the park, a dog chasing a ball -- all of it is just wonderful. Even on my worst day, I can see those things and recognize that it is all going to be okay. I should have died a couple of times during my military career, so I frankly consider every single day a gift. There are so many people worse off than me, who still greet every dawn with joy, so I try not to complain, no matter how much I hurt. Good luck my friend, and God Bless!

@kendalkenny1843

3 жыл бұрын

I want you to know Jesus is real. I'm not just a Brian wash Bible thumper. But pray and he will let you know...

@chrisjones8515

3 жыл бұрын

Ya hang in there man and don't over think shit it will get you know where.....God Bless and Airborne All The Way!👍

@jaycoburn7755

3 жыл бұрын

i'm 60, and lived through all this but didnt know the details. just had to say, i hope the covid thing hasnt made things worse, now we are all sitting around, wondering if the kids will call. to mask or not to mask is our reality, and nobody knows whats coming next. i think most of us are survivors enough that we will be watching the covid19 documentaries in a decade, and going, 'yeah, i did all that'

35:38 this helicopter came from HMM-164 Futenma Air Base Okinawa a base I was on at the time of this evacuation. The base became a ghost town most personnel and helicopters left. The unit ID and bird number were blacked out.

@garyleedavis9603

4 жыл бұрын

I was with the 31st MAU...during that time

I love these.

"Please move the helicopters." What a boss, polite even in a life or death situation.

@doyleperkins4916

2 жыл бұрын

Ours was a much more polite generation. I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember the old saying "grace under fire," when it was applied when we were kids.

@SamanthaLeigh7

2 жыл бұрын

@@doyleperkins4916 I'm a millennial and have never heard the phrase "grace under fire", but when I was a kid, there was a TV show by the same name. I never stopped to think about the meaning though, but after reading your comment, now I know and I think it's a good thing to teach my own kids.

@low-keyrighteous9575

2 жыл бұрын

@@doyleperkins4916 what does grace under fire mean ?

Our servicemen deserved better when they came home

Same here, the choppers leaving the roof tops is what I remember the most.

I graduated ARMY basic and Infantry AIT Sept 1972(Fort Polk LA-Tigerland) Then Commissioned ROTC Dec 1975 (Univ of IOWA) a three year (cold war) tour of duty Nuremberg(Germany 1976-1979) followed

@johnmartinez9414

3 жыл бұрын

My dad got killed in Vietnam .I grew up with an abusive stepfather.who would laugh and say vc and nva probably raped my father before they tortured killed him. All this because Washington listened to hippies talking shit about u.s soldiers who gave it there all. Why the government sent my father to Vietnam to die for a a war they knew they couldn't win and didn't want to finish. I hope lbj is shoveling brimstone right now

@jpmnky

2 жыл бұрын

My dad was in Nuremberg 78-80.

One of the happiest moment in History!

42:18 - A perfect image for the debacle.

I was on the Hercules that blocked the taxiway, after being hit in the right wings external fuel tank! All 8 of us got out and fled to another Hercules and took off under fire and made it back to Clark!

@goutvols103

4 жыл бұрын

What was the name of your unit?

@JohnBrown-rv4os

4 жыл бұрын

Thank our self for our service ,I wasn't there but spent a many of night overseas guarding when people back home sleeping,when I got back home was treated like shit by some of my American. I was a president honors guard from DC station in Spain Turkey and who knows. Love all of my brother in service. And one last thing I am black.

@cokeLord

4 жыл бұрын

Liar

@jenzeglis113

4 жыл бұрын

Thank You God Bless

@rickphoenix5638

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the personal aspect and thank God you made it.

Americans repeated this scenes in Kabul 2021. Seems some things never change.

Intense series thanks Jack Smith. Here we are 2020, still trying to destroy our selves in a way.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Film "The Vietnam war": Americans fight in Vietnam -70% for honor, -20% for China -10% for South Vietnamese What a foolish folly of the American leadership

RIP: Private Donald Cooke, USMC, age 19...Private Roy Howard, USMC, age 18...Private Don White, US Army, age 21. Sergeant James Jennings, US Army, age 23. You left us far too early. 🇺🇸

I always feel bad for the South Vietnamese firefighters that were left behind. They deserved better.

@marynguyen2579

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, father! Both America and North Vietnam Communist violated the Paris Peace Agreement. That aimed to stop the war (1) withdraw all American soldiers, still give military support. (2) both South and NVC on ceasefire, stay where they were and stop fighting, and prepare for election. The fall of Saigon was predicted when the U.S. Congress cut all military supports to the South, while NVC continued received the massive powerful weapons from Soviet Union and China on economic base. Henry Kissinger’s The Whole Memoir told all.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

@@marynguyen2579$ 1,000 bill ; 600,000 baby killers didn't bring victory, more" supports" for dumb and coward people = waste money .

So many of these Vietnamese settled in or by Orange County. Just south of Los Angeles. The street signs are in their language. At one time it was called little Siagon.

@SeNsiTiviTy00

4 жыл бұрын

It is still called Little Saigon

@Daniel26448

3 жыл бұрын

Really

@thornil2231

Жыл бұрын

criminals with blood on their hands

Sounds like history is repeating itself in Afghanistan. The President never ordered the Ambassador out of Saigon. The Helicopter Pilot made it up because he knew the Ambassador wouldn't leave otherwise. The removal of the Ambassador was the final flight from the Embassy.

That ambassador Martin only made things worse. His stubborn denial of the eventual fall of Saigon caused more disorganization & disaster. This incompetent bureaucrat needed to be challenged in the judicial system for gross negligence.

So this is where the old history Channel went.

Iam too sad even to finish wacthing this

32:46 Some historian consider that the last American military personnel who were KIA in the Vietnam war were the personnel who were KIA/MIA in the Mayaguez incident a couple of weeks after the fall of Saigon. Marine Corporals McMahon and Judge were the last American ground KIAs in Vietnam.

@garyleedavis9603

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct Mike

@RetroActive84

2 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to add to your statement cause the videos titles his name Darwin W Judge when it is in fact Darwin Lee Judge, there is no W, Darwin was my uncle!

@toshiojohnston3732

11 ай бұрын

I remember macaques like it was yesterday.

I wonder , were there others like me , who was expelled out of Jr high [ twice ] for Studying this Situation at the age of 16 yrs of age.

Unreal we're very lucky to live in America.

The war nobody wanted but we still ended up there

@chrisjones8515

3 жыл бұрын

That's why they killed Kennedy in 63'

This was a particularly vile and despicable war which had no viable grounds for the US to create. The commanders of the various battalions were sheer slime who even enjoyed smirking about it afterwards. How anyone can LAUGH about that war, whilst recounting their own experiences, makes me sick to my guts. "If anybody thinks it's a good idea to go to war, they're crazy!!" "If anybody has never walked a battlefield with 2 or 3 hundred torn, bloating American and North Vietnamese bodies, then they shouldn't feel qualified to talk about the glory of war, because there is none. War sucks!!!" Whoever makes the first attack, anywhere, can expect to be slaughtered. ....but the politicians don't care.

Where is this channel located?

How symbolic . . . first American Ambassador after the war was a once 'prisoner of war,' of that very nation ! 🇺🇸

I truly agree 💗,

this is being repeated again taliban 2.0 in Afghanistan 🇦🇫

@misterbig9025

2 жыл бұрын

Is it true many girls are forcibly assaulted in the last 5 days in Afghanistan?

@emperorconstantine1.361

Жыл бұрын

Maybe worse I think.

@misfitfarmandhomestead3057

Жыл бұрын

We never learn

@redacted5035

Жыл бұрын

Hot take. 🔥 Who did you copy that from?

@leonleon2276

Жыл бұрын

Maybe about time usa stayed out of other countries business

There wasn't one ground troop that believed the ARVN army would stand and fight without American troops. They proved us right. There were exceptions but they were in the minority.

@Sturminfantrist

4 жыл бұрын

yes there were exception the 18th (?) ARVN Div at battle of xuan loc /Battle at Newport Bridge they hold off a far greater NVA force for nearly 2 weeks, thats the proof that they could fight, when well lead ARVNs could fight, also some Para Units fought well during the last days. But dont forget the US cut the Weapon/fuel and Ammo deliveries to South Vietnam and even before this the ARVN were outgunned they had only a few M-48 (with 90mm gun) and M-41 (76mm) vs masses of NVAs T-55 (100mm) and chinese T copies Also Montagnard Tribesmen were excepcional good Fighters when lead by US green Barrets as an Green Barret officier stated "they wre pound for pound as good as conventional US combat troops" Dont blame the Men, blame the ARVNs corrupted officiers corps, south vietnamese are the same Breed like northern men and they could fight when well lead and supplied. With US air support and without the supplies cut all what happend could be avoided. I was a Teenager back then and i remember this sad days very well, i sat every evening at the TV watching the news from VN. Sry for my bad english. Edit now i saw the whole vid and they mentioned both Battles Xuan loc and Newport bridge

@txnetcop

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sturminfantrist We agree there were some exceptions. I do blame the mostly corrupt officer corps. Thank you for contributing to this discussion.

@hoangtran-gf3gd

4 жыл бұрын

TxCowpoke: "stand and fight" for what? So as to prolong a week, a month or a year from its death fate which had already been determined when the Nixon-Kissinger team introduced the Vietnamization program and secretly negotiated relations with communist China - the main backer of North Vietnam. Although Nixon had made promise to Thieu in writing to use nuclear threat to deter any attempt of invasion by North Vietnam, that promise became null when Nixon resigned his presidency and the new U.S. Congress was forceful to cut all aids to South Vietnam. At first, the ARVN was doing fine with Nixon's Vietnamization program. The fierce battle of Quang Tri in 1972 where the ARVN prevailed over the NVA was an undeniable example of the ARVN's ability to fight the North Vietnamese army. But when news of the aid and support cut off by the new U.S. president and U.S. Congress from Washington reached Saigon, the clock for the end of South Vietnam started ticking. After all, who in the right mind would expect the ARVN to maintain moral and confidence to fight an enemy that was receiving full supports from the entire communist block while itself being cut loose on its own by America and its allies of the free world? Don't you think the ARVN's decision to put down their guns not to fight was wisdom? Don't you think that decision may have also prevented further unnecessary, senseless deaths and destructions to the country that had already by that time ravaged by a terribly misguided war?

@nhattuyenphan9150

4 жыл бұрын

TxCowPoke, Xuan Loc battle or Newport Bridge are nothing as it just win by surprising and delays the failure as longer as it could with more bloodshed. If they have ever wanted to fight against the NVA force, why didn’t they do it in the first place at Phuoc Long province, if they can do it may be the U.S Congress will continue to send supply to them. They blamed their failure to their leader, officer and Americans but if they fought well on the battlefield at Ap Bac, Binh Gia, Dinh Tuong,...the American will not need to bring their troops to Vietnam. Do not bring here lie by the reason for their failure is about their equipments and weapons, ammunitions are little than the enemy. The ARVN got 1,4 million troops, tanks and armored vehicles are 8000 while the enemy only got 320,000 troops with 600 T54 tanks. When the NVA captured the Long Binh - the big Supplyment of South Vietnam, they have a lot of new tanks, new fighters, weapons and ammunitions that enough to Cambodian campaign. After 50 years, an old ARVN vet who worked in U.S aid program has told the truth that all weapons, ammunitions and equipments are enough to hold the South until the end of 1976 even the U.S didn’t send aid. His name is Vu Van Loc colonel and he is still alive in U.S today. He said the reason that the ARVN did not stand and fight because panic is spread out from the top to the bottom. So the ARVN soldiers just drop gun and run. You can watch his clip below, please find someone who know VietNamese language, they will translate for you. kzread.info/dash/bejne/emloz5SlY6fNZKg.html

@txnetcop

4 жыл бұрын

@@nhattuyenphan9150 You seem to think I'm calling the ARVN cowards...I am not even implying that. I am saying they became dis-spirited when the US Army pulled out. I said there were exceptions but in the end my buddies saw that many of the ARVN armies were pulling off their uniforms and even carrying signs of their hatred for America. I don't doubt they felt deserted. In the beginning it seemed our purpose was to win as soldiers but there were days of so-called truces and the stopping of the bombings of the North gave the NVA a chance to rebuild and reorganize. We fought with one hand tied behind our backs in that we now depended on body counts as a way to win a war. We only sometimes held the ground we fought for. America began to hate the very soldiers they sent to the job. The American fighting man was betrayed by America and the politicians, the ARVN army was betrayed by politicians and corruption! Here was the hard part, who could you trust in Vietnam? So many of those who were allies by day were Charlie by night, even some of the women and children. One of my buddy's had his face blown off in a Saigon bar by a bicycle bomb planted near him by a youngster. The end was predictable. I think most soldiers from Vietnam hoped that if there were futures wars we would go in and win it no matter the cost. Those were soldiers dying and their lives mattered and their deaths should have mattered even more!

Just curious at 46minute in this episode he mentions the firemen being left behind. Can anyone give more info what happened to these firemen? Tried googling it but not very succesfull.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

No one was left behind. They still left Vietnam on the last trip. NVA did not shoot the evacuation plane.

The last aircraft to leave the airfield in Saigon were 130s hurkey birds. Air traffic at the airfield was controlled by United States Air Force combat controllers. The then sergeant Lewis o bradham was one of the last people at the airfield. Sergeant brabham watched the last aircraft take off while defending the airfield. He received the silver Star for the efforts of that day. God bless him. God bless his family. God bless the United States of America

I remember this

@kendalkenny1843

3 жыл бұрын

I watch that war since I was 7 to 13

The ads on this video are beyond hideous.. chill on the spamming of trying to overly monetize this video

@cindyinnew

3 жыл бұрын

Yes war monger videos

Thieu escaping with his gold bags and booze. This is who the Americans wanted as their ally. The sad truth is that the Americans were never in touch with the common Vietnamese or understood their sufferings, and this is why most Vietnamese trusted HoChiMinh rather than Thieu

This was truly a great documentary. I never had a clue that the military were forced to clear those landing areas on the warships by pushing the helicopters into the sea. Instead of blaming the warriors who were sent into this war, we should have blamed and held accountable the government who controlled the war. Thanks to all of our brave men and women who served in Vietnam, especially to the POW and MIA.

@thuankhong

5 ай бұрын

Their sever= disgusting war crime

Tội nghiệp cho các Baby ❤❤❤

This is exactly the results of expecting military leaders,to fight a war ,with one hand tied behind their backs. This war ,was lost before it even started.

"They were thugs." WTF are they supposed to do when your country just COLLAPSED??? Those resources can be used to barter for food or medicine.

@azia5051

2 жыл бұрын

Yep true, just like in U.S.A, but truth the same time.

@twofiveb

2 жыл бұрын

Who wouldn’t do that if they thought it may help them and their families survive? And it’s not like the Americans were going to be coming back for all that stuff.

@XMJ3904

2 жыл бұрын

I think they meant they were fighting and attacking people for them. I don't blame them for it though.

Howard K. Smith’s son.His father was CBS’s, and one of the last American, reporters out of Berlin before the US entered WWII.

Was their Dec. 1967 to Jan. 1969-what a waist of LIVES & MONEY

@Phan-Xu

4 жыл бұрын

I guess you were a Marine.

@hippielewis4768

4 жыл бұрын

You bet-Made E-5 in 20 1/2 months. Joined for 3 years-did not spend 2. Got early out.

@Phan-Xu

4 жыл бұрын

@@hippielewis4768 my dad was Airborne at Hamburger Hill, Ashau Valley, Dak To, Pleiku, Da nang, Phu bai, Da Lat Kontum Phan Rang and An ky.

@hippielewis4768

4 жыл бұрын

qntnbarrett88 -I was in 3rd marine division-bronze star on 8-26-1968

@kendalkenny1843

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you anyway.

I remember, i was aboard the USS thomaston LSD'-28

This is what happens when large powerful countries intrude into a foreign civil war fought as a guerrilla war in a small underdeveloped country expecting an easy victory in a country and among a people that the large powerful country just does not understand. The Americans thought it would be another Korean War without recognising the obvious facts that Vietnam is not Korea and that the causes and origins of the war in Vietnam were completely different to the Korean War. Add to that the U.S. also lost the war in Vietnam because the N.L.F./P.L.A.F. and North Vietnamese served up a war the 4-star dunce Westmoreland and the U.S. military establishment did not know how to fight. But really the bottom line was and is that the American interventionist war in Vietnam was simply completely unjustified. And it failed as it was always going to fail.

A bit of a silly thing to say at the end considering the mess in Iraq& Afghanistan

@Tekisasubakani

3 жыл бұрын

"This series first aired in October 1998 in six parts." Right there in the video info. Where they supposed to see the future when making this or what?

"They were panicking. They were afraid we were leaving them." I wonder why they would think that.

Tony Wood reminds me of Duke in GIJoe

The Poor Dogs where just left to die it is inhumane blood thirsty Government

"Brought it home because 2 of us had died" "TWO OF US"? How about "more than 58000 had died in Vietnam"?

U.S. Policy and SITREP = SNAFU......Straight up!

@cokeLord

4 жыл бұрын

Dork

GOLF OF TONKIN ANOTHER BANKERS WAR HOW DO PEOPLE NOT SEE WHATS HAPPENING AGAIN TODAY

@vladamijovic5512

4 жыл бұрын

America in vijetnam?

@vladamijovic5512

4 жыл бұрын

America in balkan, Japan, sout korea, mejbi rusia

@chrisjones8515

3 жыл бұрын

Oh blv me I'm well aware and have been for a long time.....just a new game of deceipt now they play!

@colincrisp1592

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisjones8515 cheers well done

and American supported president who left own country and people with gold and money so smart

My uncle a bad ass was in Saigon that day,

@cindyinnew

3 жыл бұрын

I think anyone who had an semblance of a mind must be a badass. Damn. What chaos is defined as

Media did a great job for north vietnam,Russia and China!

@chrisjones8515

3 жыл бұрын

What do you expect the u.s. was blowing smoke up everybody's ass......total systematical failure! Fact!

@josephbragg5020

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that funny our media does a good job of backstabbing our country yet today.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Stop stupid babble.

No oil. So America got out

@stormwarning1235

Ай бұрын

No oil. So, why did America go in? Your argument is faulty.

We did what we could to make these people feel comfortable.

Musta been a pretty tight party, one that a true American could not Forget, [ We will Remember, at least ME]...

When will be the last flight out of Kabul?

Cool documentary about the last days in Afghanistan, RIGHT!!!!

I beg to differ with the idea that the combatants knew the best about the Vietnam War. We knew very little except about the war except the area where we operated. Neither did the CIA. I worked with some of them in 69 and the ones I met didn't know much about the VC, the NVA, or their capabilities. My Vietnamese friend in 69 picked the year exactly, he said 1975 in 1969. Even in 69, the average Vietnamese knew the outcome.

@thuankhong

Жыл бұрын

Only American "electronic brains" didn't know

Damn, I didn't know about the C-5A crash.

Thank you to all those that serve in the US Military

Thank you the Good America and the Rightous Soldiers for being the ally of South Vietnam fighting against communists.

@dannywilliams3764

3 жыл бұрын

You really are stupid. But thank you to the soliders who fought. Fought for nothing but life and their brothers

@huynhwoomin245

3 жыл бұрын

@@dannywilliams3764 without Americans, Taiwan and South Korea would be dead now. I dont take any of your shallow opinion seriously. Not any fight is meaningless. Bullhead.

@ghostsoperator5576

3 жыл бұрын

@Huynh Woomin Respect. Thank you for not being a communist and thank you for staying humble. @Danny Williams Where did you learn history? Hollywood? KZread? Who taught you that? You should be ashamed. I believe none of you or your family have ever had the guts to fight in a real war. That's why there is no meaningful fight for you.

@reubenchong9051

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghostsoperator5576 America may try to control the world, but communism has shown itself to be no better, and so far yes, if not for them communism aka China wouldve swallowed up everything cuz they love making babies more than educating themselves.

@reubenchong9051

3 жыл бұрын

@@huynhwoomin245 Fool