Last U.S. units our of Vietnam?

[mcmike]

Although U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in '73, some Marine units and possibly Army units stayed as embassy guards, advisors, etc, until the last mass exodus in April, '75. Does anyone know which units were the last out?

Thanks,
Mike

[dogman68]

29 April 1975 - Marines of the 9th MAB executed Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Americans, foreign nationals and various Vietnamese officials and citizens associated with Americans from Saigon to ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet.

Significance: This ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The 9th MAB, in effect, conducted the last U.S. troop operation of the Vietnam War. The following day, Saigon fell to North Vietnamese troops and organized South Vietnamese resistance to the Communist forces of North Vietnam ended. The Communists unified Vietnam under their regime.

[dogman68]

L/CPL Darwin L. Judge of Marshalltown, Iowa, during the Fall Of Saigon he was killed along with CPL Charles McMahon of Woburn, Massachusetts while on guard duty at Ton Sun Nhut Airbase on the morning of April 29, 1975. May we never forget that freedom has a price.

[mcmike]

Dogman: thanks for the info, and the sidelight on the men who must have been the last casualties of that war.

Mike

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