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The desperate and confused battle triggered by the Mayaguez incident was a disturbing finale to America’s war in Southeast Asia. Could it get any worse? Two weeks earlier, April 29, 1975, Saigon had fallen to the North Vietnamese—just a couple of weeks after the Khmer Rouge took Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Flying F-4D Phantoms out …
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