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The last combat troops of the United States were pulled out of South Vietnam on 29 March 1973. 8,500 American civilians, embassy guards, and defense office soldiers remained in Saigon. The largest helicopter evacuation in history occured on 29 April 1975 when 7,000 Americans and South Vietnamese were evacuated from the US Embassy in Saigon. Saigon fell the following day to the North Vietnamese troops.
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When did the last American troops leave Vietnam?
2009
What was the exact date that regular US troops became invoved in Vietnam and when did they leave?
American involvement began in 1955. The first combat troops arrived in 1965, and we fought the war until January 1973.
The US troops fought the longest war in what country?
Vietnam
What did the complete withdrawal of American troops mean for south Vietnam?
Ultimately the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam could be used to define the end of the war, the last of the American troops did not leave until the Paris Peace accords were signed in 1973.
How many years and months were US troops fighting in the Vietnam War?
US Servicemen had been fighting communists in South Vietnam since 1955.
