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MANCHESTER — Northshire Bookstore is hosting Ralph White, author of “Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians,” on July 7 at 6 p.m.
In April 1975, the Vietnam War was as good as over, and the communists had won. The American military was gone, save for a tiny contingent of 50 Marines, with the South Vietnam capital of Saigon surrounded by both encroaching Viet Cong rebels and the North Vietnamese Army.