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(Tuesday, April 29, 1975, 2:00 p.m. Saigon Standard Time; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — U.S. President Gerald Ford ordered the emergency evacuation today of all Americans remaining in South Vietnam.

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The evacuation of the Americans, believed to total more than 950, was expected to take less than nine hours.

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The plan called for picking them up in helicopters, flown with U.S. Marines as guards, to Saigon from carriers lying off South Vietnam.

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