American Military News: US Marines release video for 45th anniversary of Saigon evacuation
On April 29, 1975, the U.S. military launched Operation Frequent Wind, where the last U.S. forces were airlifted out of Vietnam.
In recognition of the 45 anniversary, the U.S. Marine Corps posted a video on Wednesday documenting the evacuation mission in the last days of the Vietnam War. The evacuation mission saw the last U.S. personnel and at-risk Vietnamese citizens carried out of South Vietnam amid the fall of Saigon.
The evacuation lasted from April 29 through April 30, 1975, as U.S. Marines formed a security force to protect the evacuation flights, which carried on through the night to evacuate thousands of people. U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force helicopters participated in the aerial evacuations, bringing those evacuees to U.S. Navy ships waiting offshore.
In total, the evacuation operation successfully carried out over 7,000 U.S. personnel, South Vietnamese individuals, and third country nationals.
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WNU Editor: When I look at the videos of the time. I am always struck by the fear and desperation that was on everyone's face as they tried to break into the US embassy for a desperate flight out of the country.
They defeated the US!! It would make absolutely no sense to break into the embassy of the country you defeated to try and get officials of that country to then help you get a flight out of that country.
ReplyDeleteIt does if you're South Vietnamese
DeleteThey didn't defeat the US. The US had no intention of "winning," which we could have done, if we had wanted to, in less than 6 months, probably less than 3 months. But as with Korea, there was never any intention of "winning." The US has not been in a war, constitutionally speaking, since WWII. We've been more interested in instituting and managing a globalist agenda than in doing anything that puts our own national interests first. What have we actually WON since WW II? Generally speaking, nothing. And now we're being kicked around by China in the S China Sea, who we could have defeated during the Korean Conflict but didn't, and could defeat right now, but won't. The Lilliputians have defeated Gulliver.
ReplyDeleteYou were defeated, revisionist history doesn't work , when your enemy can swallow millions dead without blinking there is no other outcome.
DeleteHave no idea where I heard this or even if it’s true, but supposedly the Vietnamese that ruled and then fled were all descended from ethnic Chinese and were alienated from their ethnic Vietnamese subjects. Any truth to that?
ReplyDeleteDon’t know, but S Vietnam leaders were corrupt and would not perform. This is why they, not the US lost. Fear then gripped the nation and it fell apart. Somebody, Nation Geo.(?)!had a great 9 part series. It’s on Netflix and suggest viewing.
DeleteThe communists invaded in 1972. They were thrown back by the ARVN and American airpower.
ReplyDeleteIn 1975 the Democrat occupied Congress made clear their lack of support for South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese ARVN were demoralized and there was no American air power backing them up.
Also North Vietnam was a safe space for the aggressor. We never let our queen go there.
China had 170,000 troops in North Vietnam at one time. Which obviously allowed North Vietnamese troops to head south in equal or greater number.
People ought to get their history right.
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ReplyDeletewe went because both parties supported the war. We left because the public no longer wanted us there.
Communist 5th column had nothing to do with it
ReplyDeletePort Huron statement was a figment of your imagination.
If the Soviets had been 1/2 as good at running their country as they had been at running ours they would have survived.