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29th April 1975: USA leaves Vietnam in Operation Frequent Wind

29th April 2022
Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Evacuation, Helicopter, Military, USA, Vietnam, War

On 29^th April 1975, America began Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of over 1,000 American civilians and a further 6,000 “at-risk” Vietnamese from Saigon.

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26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

26th May 2020
Tagged as: Army, Britain, Churchill, Evacuation, France, Germany, Navy, Nazi, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Second World War

Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.

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29th April 1975: USA leaves Vietnam in Operation Frequent Wind

26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

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2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter, releases his eponymous debut album

18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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