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Vietnamese refugees evacuated by helicopter

arrive on board the USS Midway

ahead of the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975.

Pictures from History/Universal Images Group

via Getty Images

Photos:

A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War

NPR

April 30, 2025 12:29 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/04/30/
g-s1-63099/fall-of-saigon-photos-50-years-later

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

Getty Images

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fall_of_Saigon

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/
us/politics/juan-jose-valdez-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/04/30/
g-s1-63099/fall-of-saigon-photos-50-years-later

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/
nx-s1-5379948/vietnam-war-saigon-journalist

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://archive.nytimes.com/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

https://www.npr.org/2005/04/29/
4624718/saigon-the-last-day

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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