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Biden’s last helicopter out of Kabul
The US President was a Senator during the Saigon evacuation at the end of the Vietnam War. Now he is waiting for the last helicopter out of Afghanistan.
Matthew CranstonUnited States correspondentWashington| At 7.53am on April 30, 1975, a helicopter carrying Major James Kean and 10 Marine Security Guards departed from Saigon for the USS Okinawa. It was the last US helicopter out of Vietnam, in a mission known as Operation Frequent Wind to evacuate all remaining “at-risk” Americans from the Vietnam War.
At the time, President Joe Biden was a senator, watching the handling of the operation by then-president Gerald Ford.
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