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14 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Resigns. Saigon, South Vietnam: South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu is on the job in Saigon, April 14. After ten years in office, Thieu resigned April 21, denouncing the US as untrustworthy. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

19 Mar 1975, Dau Tieng, South Vietnam --- Villagers flee down highway as Communists advance in Dau Tieng, 35 miles north of Saigon. Blown-up bridges blocked 3/19 the escape route for a convoy of an estimated 250,000 persons from Pleiku and other towns in the central highlands, abandoned at the order 3/18 of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

21 Mar 1975, Hieu Xuong District, South Vietnam --- 3/21/1975-Hieu Xuong District, South Vietnam: A mother cries over the body of her son at Hieu Xuong, 9 miles west of Tuy Hoa. He was killed 3/20 in Communist shelling of the convoy which was passing the Phu Bon area. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

22 Apr 1976, Saigon, South Vietnam --- South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu speaks to his people last 4/21 on TV saying that he resigns. Thieu served as chief executive of South Vietnam 54-days short of 10-years, longer than any other Saigon Leader. The 52-year old President decided to step aside after lead of virtually every military, political and religious block told him they lacked confidence in his leadership. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

26 Mar 1975, Hue, South Vietnam --- Soldiers and civilians are jammed together on a Navy boat that evacuated them from the old imperial capital of Hue. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

26 Mar 1975, Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam --- Getting a lift...Arriving here from Pleiku, this truck is piled to the top and then some as refugees continue to flee advancing Communist forces in South Vietnam. Communist troops occupied Da Nang in triumph March 31st and warned that all ships and planes must have their permission before evacuating refugees from the city, their greatest trophy in 20 years of Indochina war. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

29 Mar 1975, Van Ninh, South Vietnam --- March 29, 1975 - Van Ninh, South Vietnam: Carrying only a few things on his back, a weeping head of a family leads the way while walking along Highway 1, twenty seven miles north of Nha Trang as they approach this town walking from Qui Nhon. They are part of the Convoy of Tears from the abandoned Central Highlands. An estimated 1.5 million persons are feared trapped in Da Nang, which went under Communist control. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

30 Mar 1975, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam --- The ship unloads refugees from Da Nang at the dock here 3/29. The American ship evacuated some 5,000 persons including some American Consulate personnel. Military sources said 3/30 that North Vietnamese tanks were cruising the streets of Da Nang and that their flag was flying atop the American Consulate. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

29 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- SAIGON, S. VIETNAM: Vietnamese civilians climbing on board a U.S. bus carrying evacuees into the U.S. Embassy, while hundreds milled around the gate, trying to get in to join the American evacuation from Saigon 4/29. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Soldiers stopping people in the crowded street from climbing over the walls of the United States Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. --- Image by © Nik Wheeler/CORBIS

29 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half mile from the U.S. Embassy. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

27 Mar 1975, Da Nang, South Vietnam --- March 27, 1975 - Da Nang, South Vietnam: This aerial view taken from one of the refugee planes as it flew toward Nha Trang airbase shows the crowds of people and boats milling around the dock here. U.S. planes and pilots are flying 727s loaded with refugees to safer ground in Nha Trang. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

24 Mar 1975, Danang, South Vietnam --- A South Vietnamese Navy landing craft fully loaded with refugees from hue, 370 miles northeast of Saigon, ferry additional numbers of people to Danang 3/23. The 300,000 refugees already in Danang city will be disseminated in the vast land in the mekong delta with the help of foreign Navy ships. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

23 Mar 1975, Phu Binh, South Vietnam --- March 23, 1975 - Phu Binh, South Vietnam: The tail end of the convoy of tears remains trapped on the provincial route 7 near Phu Tuc District, 23 miles west of Tuy Hoa, March 23, as the Communist gunners fired into the convoy, splitting the trapped into segments. South Vietnam has lost about one-third of its territory to the communists in the three-week offensive --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

26 Mar 1975, Tuy Hoa, South Vietnam --- Getting a lift...Arriving here from Pleiku, this truck is piled to the top and then some as refugees continue to flee advancing Communist forces in South Vietnam. Communist troops occupied Da Nang in triumph March 31st and warned that all ships and planes must have their permission before evacuating refugees from the city, their greatest trophy in 20 years of Indochina war. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

04 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Refugees from Da Nang, Hue and other fallen South Vietnam cities, crowded with their belongings aboard buses, reach out for food and water as they head toward Saigon from Cam Ranh City. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

April 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Refugees pour over fences at the port in an attempt to flee Saigon, South Vietnam. --- Image by © Nik Wheeler/CORBIS

28 Apr 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Saigon, South Vietnam: Black smoke billowing from the U.S. Agency for International Development compound at the northern edge of Saigon after it was hit by Communist rocket during fighting. Most roads in and out of Saigon were sealed by the fighting. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

Saigon, South Vietnam --- Women and children run from the road as the (USAID) compound burns in the background on the northern edge of the capital. Communist gunners tightened the noose on Saigon 4/28 on three sides and within 5-miles of Saigon blocking Highway 1, in and out of here. VietCong commandos were holed up near this compound, government troops were unable to oust the dug-in guerrillas. Most of the compound was burned in the fighting. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS