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US Air Force HH-53 helicopters on the deck of USS Midway during Operation Frequent Wind, April 1975 Map showing the disposition of U.S. Navy ships at the start of Operation Frequent Wind Ships of TF 76 wait off Vũng Tàu for the start of the operation
English: Map showing the disposition of U.S. Navy ships at the start of "Operation Frequent Wind", in April 1975. The command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) was located approximately 28 km from Vung Tau, Vietnam, at 1500 hrs on 29 April 1975.
Mass evacuation/airlift of orphans from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries: Tan Son Nhut: Apr 12: Operation Eagle Pull [2]: 102–24 Evacuation of US citizens, "at-risk" Cambodians and 3rd country nationals: Phnom Penh: Apr 29 – 30: Operation Frequent Wind [2]: 178–201
The United States Department of State protested that North Vietnam had violated the 1973 Paris Peace Accords by infiltrating 160,000 soldiers and 400 armored vehicles into South Vietnam. North Vietnam had improved the Ho Chi Minh trail , now a network of all-weather roads, through Cambodia and Laos and expanded their armament stockpiles.
Vietnam War auxiliary ships of the United States ... Vietnam War cruisers of the United States (3 C, 19 P) D. Vietnam War destroyers of the United States (149 P) F.
United States Missouri Gasconade United States: 1982 Pegasus Hydrofoil [4] USS Arizona: United States Hawaii: Pearl Harbor: United States: 1915 Pennsylvania class: Battleship: USS Arizona Memorial, Sunken Wreck [5] USS Barry: United States District of Columbia: Washington D.C. United States. 1955 Forrest Sherman class: Destroyer: scrapped ...
At the end of March 1975, the ARVN maintained a security team on Phú Quý, which included one police platoon and 4,000 members of the People's Self-Defense Forces. From April 1975, the local ARVN forces on Phú Quý were joined by an additional 800 ARVN soldiers, who escaped from the mainland town of Hàm Tân when PAVN forces captured it. [14]
When the ship pulled out of port to continue to Southeast Asia, another 53 sailors were missing. [4]: 112–113 In January 1972 with the ship off Vietnam, Secretary of the Navy John Chafee visited the Coral Sea. SOS activists on board held a demonstration and presented the Navy Secretary with a petition which 36 of them had signed. [41]