Larry Chambers' orders saved lives by pushing helicopters into the sea during the end of the Vietnam War. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In April 1975, as the North Vietnamese closed in on Saigon, Americans ...

For many Americans, especially those born after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, images of that cataclysmic and controversial conflict were forged by Hollywood: "Apocalypse Now." "The Deer Hunter.