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We felt, or rather ‘hoped and expected’ the US would win 😂 and take over the northern half of the country. Hell, that was the time when America was looked upon favourably, probably the best time in modern history, for South east Asians.
Malaysia helped a little during the Vietnam war:
- Built concrete runways on an unoccupied island off the coast of northern peninsula Malaysia, in case a US bomber fighter plane needed a friendly country to land their damaged plane. How did I know this (when the rest of the country does not?) I worked for an American (from Michigan) who knew.
- Barry was living ‘quietly,’ shacked up with a Malaysian Chinese girl, in a Kuala Lumpur hotel. He drove me there on a Holden coupé to see the runway on the island after the war.
- Three years later, he disappeared leaving behind a huge hotel accomodation bill. Nobody, not even his local woman, knew where he went. He abandoned everything, like the US did after the war.
- Kuala Lumpur was one of the R&R stops for American GIs. A night club in jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman was packed with American servicemen, at night.
“Man proposes god disposes.”
- South Vietnamese Marines leap in panic aboard a cutter from an LST in Danang Harbor in Da Nang, Vietnam, April 1, 1975 as they are evacuated from the city, shortly before its fall to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Cutters in turn hauled them south to Cam Ranh Bay.
- Thousands of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fought for space on the US civilian aircraft to Saigon as communist forces advanced following the fall of Qui Nhon, to the north.
- Americans and Vietnamese run for a U.S. Marine helicopter in Saigon during the evacuation of the city, April 29, 1975.
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