Vietnamese pilot looks back on US departure 50 years ago

The World

The last US troops pulled out of Vietnam on March 29, 1973. But the war still raged on. The South Vietnamese troops that worked with the Americans felt abandoned. Reporter Merk Nguyen speaks with Lien Nguyen, who was trained by the US military to fly cargo supply planes during the war, and who now lives in the US.

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