<P> Charles McMahon (May 10, 1953--April 29, 1975) and Darwin Lee Judge (February 16, 1956--April 29, 1975) were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War . The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon . </P> <P> Charles McMahon, 11 days short of his 22nd birthday, was a corporal from Woburn, Massachusetts . Darwin Judge was a 19 - year - old lance corporal and Eagle Scout from Marshalltown, Iowa . </P> <P> McMahon and Judge were members of the Marine Security Guard (MSG) Battalion at the US Embassy, Saigon and were providing security for the DAO Compound, adjacent to Tân Sơn Nhứt Airport, Saigon . McMahon had arrived in Saigon on 18 April, while Judge had arrived in early March . Both died in a North Vietnamese rocket attack on Tân Sơn Nhứt on the morning of April 29, 1975 . </P> <P> In accordance with procedures for deceased Americans in Vietnam, their bodies were transferred to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, nearby Tan Son Nhut . In telephone calls to the hospital on the afternoon of April 29, the few remaining staff advised that the bodies had been evacuated; in fact the bodies were left behind . Operation Frequent Wind, the American evacuation of Saigon, was completed the following day, April 30, 1975 . Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, through diplomatic channels, secured the return of the bodies the following year . </P>

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