Last Americans leave Cambodia 40 years ago today (Apr 12 1975)


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Cambodia and Laos [8/11]' (Apr. 12, 1975, at 49:54)

(Saturday, April 12, 1975; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War)Operation Eagle Pull, the United States military evacuation by air of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, began today as helicopters rescued remaining Americans to a naval task force in the Gulf of Thailand.