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‘What’s happening now is worse’: Midway skipper who pushed choppers off deck in fall of Saigon
As the human misery unfolded, then-Capt. Larry Chambers, the first Black aircraft carrier skipper, risked his career to help save those Vietnamese who had helped the U.S.
By Howard Altman