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    The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy...
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    attempted to seize the US Embassy in Saigon at the start of the VC's Tet Offensive. While the VC successfully penetrated the embassy compound, they were...
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    known as Saigon), Vietnam. The consulate reports to the ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi. Prior to the Reunification of Vietnam in 1975, the Consulate...
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    The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The...
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  • Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on...
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    The United States has the second most active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, including 271 bilateral...
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    The Embassy of the United States of America in Kabul was the official diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan...
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  • Wales The North Wall, Windsor, Ontario Vietnam War Memorial, Hanoi Bến Dược Memorial Temple, Ho Chi Minh City Đồng Lộc Junction Embassy of the United States...
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    The Defense Attaché Office, Saigon (also known as DAO, Saigon or simply DAO) was a joint-service command and military attaché branch of the United States...
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    The Embassy of the United States, Hanoi is the highest diplomatic representation of the United States in Hanoi, Vietnam. The embassy is located in Hanoi...
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  • members of the Cao Dai religious sect. Frank Snepp, who served as a CIA agent at the Embassy of the United States, Saigon from 1969 to the Fall of Saigon in...
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    battalions at Saigon. Sapper Battalions and the local forces attacked the Presidential Palace, the National Radio Station, the U.S. Embassy, and other principal...
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    the city then known as Saigon, South Vietnam. As the commitment of the United States to Vietnam deepened, the original design of Curtis and Davis was significantly...
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  • controversy about Miss Saigon only began in 1990 with the prospect of it appearing on Broadway, which Wong argued, was because the United States has a much larger...
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    government of the North, led by Chairman Hồ Chí Minh, and did not recognize the northern regime. At the end of the Vietnam War, the US Embassy in Saigon was...
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    The Embassy of the United States in Phnom Penh is the sole diplomatic mission of the United States to Cambodia. It is located in the capital Phnom Penh...
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    Operation Frequent Wind (category Fall of Saigon)
    Saigon. The airlift resulted in a number of enduring images. Evacuation plans already existed as a standard procedure for American embassies. At the beginning...
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    22 Gia Long Street (category Fall of Saigon)
    The image was widely misreported as showing Americans crowding on to the roof of the United States Embassy to board a helicopter. In reality, the apartment...
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    (High Commission)  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain (High Commission)  United States Washington, D.C. (Embassy) Atlanta (Consulate-General) Boston (Consulate-General)...
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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. After European colonization...
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    Frank Snepp (category Recipients of the Intelligence Medal of Merit)
    debriefer, and chief strategy analyst in the United States Embassy, Saigon; he was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit for his work. Snepp is a former...
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    of the points of attack was the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Though US troops were able to fend off the Viet Cong and ultimately prevailed militarily, the...
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  • soldiers attack the Embassy of the United States, Saigon. Their leaders are killed by the two United States Military Police on duty at the gate. The 101st Airborne...
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  • Little Saigon is the Vietnamese ethnic enclave in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, which served the large refugee population that immigrated...
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    resident in Saigon. Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and the United States were broken twice: The first time between 1965 and 1969, and the second time...
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    circumstance for you to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable". Reporters...
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  • the helicopter ascends. Back in Saigon, Chickie learns that his ship has left early due to warnings of an impending attack and is on the way to the Philippines...
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    Graham Martin (category Ambassadors of the United States to Italy)
    the embassy in Saigon, marking the end of the American presence in Vietnam. Martin was evacuated by helicopter from the US Embassy on the morning of 30...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to the history of the United States. Prehistory of the United States History of...
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    The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed...
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