USS Kirk and the fall of Saigon

[Gypsy]

Great three part series on the USS Kirk, pictures at the links.

On April 29, 1975, as Saigon was falling to Communist North Vietnamese forces, a small U.S. Navy destroyer escort ship, the USS Kirk, played a dramatic but almost forgotten role in rescuing up to 30,000 South Vietnamese

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129484369

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129554870

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129578263

 

[LibraryLady]

Thank you, Gypsy. After listening to parts of this, I put a note on my desk to look it up and listen to the entire thing.

LL