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Vietnam war    1960s-1975 > 1975 > Fall of Saigon

South Vietnamese fled Saigon in April 1975

with the help of the American military,

as Communist forces from the north

entered the city.

Photograph: Dirck Halstead

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Our Vietnam War Never Ended

The New York Times

APRIL 24, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/
opinion/sunday/our-vietnam-war-never-ended.html 

1975

Fall of Saigon

[ now Ho Chi Minh City ]

U.S. evacuation of Saigon

South Vietnamese

president Duong Van Minh

delivers an unconditional

surrender to the Communists

in the early hours of April 30.

North Vietnamese

colonel Bui Tin

accepts the surrender

and assures Minh,

"...only the Americans

have been beaten.

If you are patriots,

consider this

a moment of joy."

As the few

remaining Americans

evacuate Saigon,

the last two U.S. servicemen

to die in Vietnam are killed

when their helicopter

crashes.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/tl3.html

https://www.npr.org/2000/04/26/
1073345/25th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-saigon

https://www.npr.org/2005/04/30/
4625940/looking-back-on-the-fall-of-saigon

https://www.npr.org/2005/04/29/
4624802/goodbye-saigon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/716609.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/29/
lessons-40-years-after-the-fall-of-saigon

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/arts/television/
vietnam-is-focus-of-tv-programs-during-fall-of-saigon-anniversary.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/
opinion/sunday/our-vietnam-war-never-ended.html

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/21/
40-years-on-from-fall-of-saigon-witnessing-end-of-vietnam-war

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/world/asia/
thomas-polgar-cia-officer-dies-at-91-helped-lead-us-evacuation-of-saigon.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/
movies/last-days-in-vietnam-looks-at-fall-of-saigon.html 

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/
on-this-day-in-history-the-fall-of-saigon/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/24/
newsid_2503000/2503771.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/30/
newsid_2498000/2498441.stm

Operation Babylift

In the days

before the fall of Saigon

on April 30, 1975,

Vietnamese children

were taken out

of the country

and flown

to the U.S.

Some were the children

of U.S. service members

and some were orphans.

But there were others

that may have had parents

who were still alive,

so the program

was controversial.

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/28/
402562381/two-days-before-operation-babylift-57-children-were-evacuated-to-the-u-s 

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/28/
402562381/two-days-before-operation-babylift-
57-children-were-evacuated-to-the-u-s 

21 April 1975

Vietnam's President Thieu resigns

The President

of South Vietnam

is forced to resign

accusing

the United States

of betrayal.

In a TV and radio address,

outgoing President

Nguyen Van Thieu

said his forces had failed

to stop the advance

of the Vietcong

because of lack of funds

promised to him

by the Americans.

In a scathing attack on the US,

he suggested

US Secretary of State

Dr Henry Kissinger

had tricked him into signing

the Paris peace agreement

two years ago,

promising military aid

which then failed

to materialise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_2935000/2935347.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/
newsid_2935000/2935347.stm

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