The American flag flying in front the empty headquarters command building at Da Nang, Vietnam, was spotted by the company commander as he drove his jeep around the compound for
MICHELLE MANN a final inspection as the last American troops left the Military Region 1 base on March 27, 1973.
People are also reading… "It didn't belong there," said Craddock, who served two tours in Vietnam. “It needed to go home with us.” Craddock deployed to the first of his two tours in Vietnam, assigned to the First Infantry Division in the southern military region. “I witnessed some of the most tremendous feats of valor that you could imagine during my first tour,” he said.
Craddock said that returning to his waiting troops at the airstrip, he learned that they would not be allowed to depart until the MPs received electronic verification that a planeload of American prisoners of war being released were in the air. “It was because we were the only troops left in the northern region and they wanted us to remain until the POWs were in the air,” he said.
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