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Shes a ch46 from marine medium helicopter squadron 165. on april 30, under the direct orders of president ford, she was piloted by jerry barry to land on the embassy rooftop in saigon and transport graham martin from the rooftop to the safety of the uss blue ridge. hereof is captain jerry barrys thoughts on that remarkable day. >> the interesting part for us was, we were flying in my wingman from hmm165 -- i think about three or 4:00 in the morning, this was continuous flight from early in the a...

A ch-46 from squadron 165. at 4:59 a.m. on april 30th undirect orders of president ford she was pilotted by captain berry to land on the embassy rooftop in saigon and transport embass for martin from that roof to the safety of the uss blue ridge. >> the interesting part for us we were flying and my wing man from hmm-165, think three or four in the morning continuous flight from early in the afternoon on the 29th, we realized we were the only ones flying. there were -- nobody else was making nois...

Moved into the strait of malacca. i know you are on the blue ridge, the command ship. >> yes, im on the command ship in the northwest part of the straight of m alacca is the destroyer "uss kidd" for importantly for the searching has two search and rescue helicopters and those give a change of at least a few hundred miles every time they fly. and they fly throughout the day. and in addition to that, we have a p-3 orion patrol aircraft and incoming p8 posiedon. the reason they are so important, th...

Is commander william park spokesman for the forward deployed 7 fleet. hello commander. >> hello, good morning. >> all right. good morning to you. >> first of all thanks for being with us. tell us what does it look like there and you are now in the indian ocean when did you get there? oo i just got out of our morning operation so i can give you a rundown of what it looks like for today. i am on board the command ship we have been commanding all of the entire fleet. right now we have the most ab...

Is commander william park spokesman for the forward deployed 7 fleet. hello commander. >> hello, good morning. >> all right. good morning to you. >> first of all thanks for being with us. tell us what does it look like there and you are now in the indian ocean when did you get there? oo i just got out of our morning operation so i can give you a rundown of what it looks like for today. i am on board the command ship we have been commanding all of the entire fleet. right now we have the most ab...

Viqueira is at the white house. jim, lets begin with you in the pentagon now. what is the u.s. military saying about the report that a french jet attacked and destroyed a libyan aircraft? >> well, there were all sorts of conflicting reports from the beginning after a french pilot radioed in to the command aboard the mt. whitney, the u.s. command ship out there in the mediterranean that he had shot down a libyan war plane. at the time, u.s. officials said they could not confirm it and continued t...