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The personnel of the American Embassy in Phnom Penh were evacuated in Operation Eagle Pull. [30] Fewer than 300 people were evacuated, including 82 Americans. Several American journalists and other foreigners chose to remain behind. [20]: 121–2 Many prominent Cambodians chose to remain behind and trust to the mercies of the Khmer Rouge.
Date duration Operation name Unit(s) – description Location VC-PAVN KIAs Allied KIAs Apr 3 – 26: Operation Babylift [1]: Mass evacuation/airlift of orphans from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries
Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in the Fall of Saigon. It was carried out on 29–30 April 1975, during the last days of the Vietnam War. More than 7,000 ...
Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part documentary mini-series about the Vietnam War (1955–1975) from the perspective of the United States. It was produced for public television by WGBH-TV in Boston, Central Independent Television of the UK and Antenne-2 of France. It was originally broadcast on PBS between October 4 and December ...
Chronicles the chaotic evacuation of United States military personnel, American diplomats, and panicked South Vietnamese that occurred during the Fall of Saigon in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War in April 1975. [13]
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other Western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon), on April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 ...
The 11-part Vietnam: A Television History miniseries was a rebroadcast of the production originally shown in 1983. Episode two "The First Vietnam War" and episode 13 "Legacies" were dropped from the 1997 rebroadcast. Episode 12 "The End of the Tunnel (1973–1975)" was rebroadcast as "The Fall of Saigon" for the 1997 airing.
The 1975 spring offensive (Vietnamese: chiến dịch mùa Xuân 1975), officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975 (Vietnamese: Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy mùa Xuân 1975), was the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vietnam War that led to the capitulation of Republic of Vietnam.