Blue ridge push a helicopter into the sea off the coast of vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights from saigon on april 29, 1975. You wanted to help every child days before the fall of saigon, a plane left vietnam with 57 children on board. As a speaker of chinese, french, and vietnamese, id been operating in vietnam under cover on and. In april of 1975, as north vietnamese troops approached the southern capital of saigon, president ford ordered the evacuation of all americans from. Summary of the evacuation of saigon, south vietnam under. Lzs 34 and 35 were located here and all operations from the annex were completed before sunset, which occurredat 1847 on 29 april. Apredawnartillery attack destroyed one c and forced the last two to take off immediately, one with refugees and one with the. Option 3evacuation by sealift from the port serving saigon. I was in saigon waiting for the north vietnamese to attack. Eric fischl, the evacuation of saigon, 1987, oil on three linen panels, the broad art foundation. The fall of saigon, april 1975 tom glenn in the first person saigon, 1975 i listened to anything i could hear to keep track of what was happening. The fall of saigon, also known as the liberation of saigon, was the capture of saigon, the.
Summary of the evacuation of saigon, south vietnam under operation frequent wind. The evacuation of the us embassy in saigon edited craig r. The original documents are located in box 2, folder vietnam evacuation embassy emergency evacuation plan of the wolfgang j. After saigon fell spotlight exhibits at the uc berkeley library. The fall of saigon the vietnam war ended 40 years ago thursday when the south vietnamese capital fell to its northern communist neighbors. The maritime evacuation of south vietnam and cambodia. Vietnam evacuation embassy emergency evacuation plan.
Four decades ago, on 30 april 1975, the final chap ter of us engagement in the vietnam. April 30, 1975 evacuation from saigon tumultuous at the end by george esper, the associated press aigon, south vietnam, wednesday, april 30 with american fighter planes flying cover and marines standing guard on the ground, americans left saigon yesterday by helicopter after fighting off throngs of vietnamese civilians who tried to go along. Option 2evacuation by military airlift from tan son nhut or whatever other airports were required. Saigon, april 29, 1975 upi the united states pulled out of vietnam tuesday, leaving a peace settlement and the surrender of saigon in the hands of the. Ambassadormartin hopedto use sixty c flights to complete the aerial evacuation of saigon onapril 29, but communist rockets frustrated his plans. Center for the study of intelligence central intelligence. Evacuation and fall of saigon during the vietnam war. Test your knowledge of the fall of saigon and some of the vocabulary used to discuss it with an interactive quiz and printable worksheet. Inside americas massive, messy evacuation from saigon how the u.
Operation frequent wind was the final phase in the evacuation of american civilians and atrisk vietnamese from saigon, south vietnam prior to the takeover of the city by the north vietnamese peoples army of vietnam pavn in the fall of saigon. South vietnamese civilians scale the 14foot wall of the u. End of the saga naval history and heritage command. There were desperate scenes of families separated and crying out for help, pleading not to be left behind, reported former cbs news correspondent ed bradley, as the city of saigon was evacuated. More than 7,000 people were evacuated by helicopter from various. It was carried out on 2930 april 1975, during the last days of the vietnam war. Inside americas massive, messy evacuation from saigon. Embassy in saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters as the last americans depart from vietnam on april 29, 1975.