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Captain who led the 1975 Vietnamese Rescue Effort to Speak at Awards Gala

| April 3, 2016 | 0 Comments
Captain who led the 1975 Vietnamese Rescue Effort to Speak at Awards Gala

Retired Navy Capt. Paul Jacobs, to this day, remembers the message he got from his naval commander: “We’re going to have to send you back to rescue the Vietnamese Navy. We forgot ‘em.” And back Jacobs went, to lead the largest single rescue effort ever by the United States – 30,000 South Vietnamese, many of […]

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