The order was given to carry out Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Americans and some South Vietnamese from the country.
Marine Corps Security Guards Corporal Charles McMahon and Lance Corporal Darwin L. Judge became the last American servicemen to be killed in Vietnam. They were killed by North Vietnamese artillery fire.
Their bodies were left behind and the North Vietnamese buried them in a Saigon cemetery. The bodies were returned to the US on February 22, 1976.
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