Operation Frequent Wind begins the final U.S. evacuation from Saigon

After intense fighting, South Vietnamese forces withdrew and Long Khánh province fell. The loss opened the eastern approaches to Saigon and accelerated the political and military collapse of the...

Thiệu resigned as the Republic of Vietnam’s military position deteriorated. In a televised address he criticized the U.S. withdrawal of support, revealing the consequences of a war effort built around...

After days of fighting, Republic of Vietnam forces withdrew from Xuân Lộc. The withdrawal opened the route toward Saigon and left civilians facing the approaching final assault and evacuation.

The final campaign toward Saigon began. Vietnamese revolutionary forces coordinated military operations with political action in a bid to end the divided state and achieve reunification; civilians...

Dương Văn Minh assumed the presidency as the Republic of Vietnam faced imminent defeat. He later called for a ceasefire and surrender, seeking to prevent further destruction in the capital.

The final phase of the U.S. evacuation began as aircraft carried U.S. personnel and Vietnamese evacuees from Saigon. The evacuation foregrounded the unequal choices created by war: some had access...

North Vietnamese forces entered Saigon as the Republic of Vietnam surrendered. The event ended the war and the division created after Geneva. For many Vietnamese it meant national reunification; it...

People’s Army of Vietnam tanks entered the presidential palace, and President Dương Văn Minh announced surrender. In Vietnam, the date is commemorated as reunification and liberation; many former...

UNHCR records the arrival in May 1975 of the first boat carrying 47 people to Malaysia. This early flight began a prolonged regional refugee movement shaped by war’s end, state change, political...

Cambodian forces seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez and its crew in the Gulf of Thailand. The U.S. military rescue operation that followed came days after Saigon’s fall and showed how conflict...