Unless it was carried off as a complete success. the questions would have left the President vulnerable to critics whose hindsight is always better than their foresight. But there are more questions. In the Danang relief mission. U.S. naval vessels with embarked helicopters and combatequipped Marines. picked up foreign national refugees and some U.S. citizens from the coast of South Vietnam and transported them to safer areas. Unquestionably. the vast majority of persons helped were not Americans. At the time the military situation in Vietnam was worsening. with South Vietnam giving up additional provinces and the capital of Hue to the Communists.
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