Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History (Ep-9) Cambodia and Laos' (Apr. 12, 1975, at 49:12)
(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.