1975 Press Photo Pentagon spokesman Joseph Laitin at news conference.

Pentagon spokesman Joseph Laitin tells newsmen at the Pentagon in the early morning hours Tuesday that the evacuation of Americans in Saigon would take three or four hours. Laitin said there was "some ground fire, but no damage" to the helicopters as they left the South Vietnamese capital.

Photo is dated 1975.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.