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She's 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 barry's 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 afternoon on the 29th. we realized that we were the only ones flying. nobody else was making noise....

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 noise out there. the command ship above which was an airplane, nobody else in a helo chance was flying t...

Moved into the strait of malacca. i know you are on the blue ridge, the command ship. >> yes, i'm 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, they give us the longest possible range we can get. we're talking upwards of 1,000 plus miles every t...

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 about the sea and the uss kid he is a destroyer. first search area will get to 3,

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 about the sea and the uss kid he is a destroyer. first search area will get to 3,