The American defeat in Vietnam is strikingly depicted by the footage of the ‘last chopper out’ from Saigon. Nevertheless, the definitive defeat of South Vietnam and America started 3 years earlier, as the North Vietnamese attacked the border with a regular army of 30.000. Only massive American air raids could stop the advance, but the end of the war had begun.

Battlefield Vietnam (12): The fall of Saigon
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