Apparently, editors didn't read captions carefully in those days, and they just took it for granted that it was the embassy roof, since that was the main evacuation site.
Soon we may be on some embassy roof, praying for helicopters.
Preceded by the roar of whirling blades, a helicopter lowers itself onto the embassy roof while searchlights sweep the auditorium.
Several men dropped from the runners onto the embassy roof.
From the billowing incinerator on the embassy roof floated intelligence documents and US currency, most charred; some not.
"It will probably begin with my departure from the embassy roof in Saigon," Mr. Snepp wrote to a friend when he started working on the script.
Helicopter from the embassy roof, anyone?
Spock, you have the conn." Quietly, Sa-Gahnesaam had gathered his staff on the embassy roof.
She laughed lightly, putting her head back and looking up past the gleaming slates of the embassy roof to the gauzy bright sky above.
I watched the last of the helicopters pull away from the embassy roof on the TV in Vera's livin room and just cried n cried.