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'Saigon: The Final Hours' - A WBUR Documentary

In this April 29, 1975, file photo, mobs of Vietnamese people scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to get to a helicopter pickup zone. (Neal Ulevich/AP)
In this April 29, 1975, file photo, mobs of Vietnamese people scale the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to get to a helicopter pickup zone. (Neal Ulevich/AP)

On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, four Massachusetts Marines offer their on-the-ground accounts of the final evacuation of U.S. troops and South Vietnamese troops and civilians from the U.S. embassy.

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