1975 in the Vietnam War
| Vietnam War | |||
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 A VNAF UH-1H Huey loaded with Vietnamese evacuees on the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41) during Operation Frequent Wind, 29 April 1975. | |||
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| Belligerents | |||
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Anti-Communist forces:  South Vietnam United States Khmer Republic Kingdom of Laos |
Communist forces:  North Vietnam Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Pathet Lao | ||
| Strength | |||
| US: | |||
| Casualties and losses | |||
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US: 161 killed [1] South Vietnam: Killed | |||
1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the South Vietnamese army folded under NVA pressure the Fall of Saigon was inevitable. The US started evacuating its citizens but to not alarm the South Vietnamese they left under a number of pretexts including Operation Babylift. On April 30, 1975 Saigon fell and the Vietnam War was over.
March
- March 10-March 12
The Battle of Buôn Ma Thuột was part of North Vietnam's Campaign 275 to capture the Central Highlands following the victory at Phuoc Long on January 6, 1975.
April
- April 3–26
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries (including Australia, France, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 infants and children had been evacuated, although the actual number has been variously reported.
- April 3 – September 3
Operation New Life was the U.S. military evacuation of about 110,000 Southeast Asian refugees displaced by the Vietnam War out of South Vietnam.
- April 12
Operation Eagle Pull was the American evacuation by air of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 12, 1975.[2]
- April 29
The Battle of Truong Sa was a naval battle that resulted in the capture of the South Vietnamese-held Truong Sa Islands by North Vietnamese forces on April 29, 1975. Following the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, Truong Sa became a part of Khanh Hoa Province.
Fall of Saigon
- April 29
Charles McMahon and Darwin Lee Judge were the last two U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. They died during a rocket attack while serving with the Marine Security Guard Battalion at the US Embassy, Saigon and were providing security for the DAO Compound, adjacent to Tân Sơn Nhứt Airport, Saigon.[3]
- April 29
Hubert van Es was a Dutch photographer and photojournalist who took the well-known photo on 29 April 1975, which shows South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon.[4]
- April 29–30
Operation Frequent Wind was the evacuation by helicopter of American civilians and 'at-risk' Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, on 29–30 April 1975 during the last days of the Vietnam War.
- April 30
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under communist rule.
Year in numbers
| Armed Force | KIA | Reference | Military costs - 1975 | Military costs in 2024 US$ | Reference | |
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| South Vietnam ARVN
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| United States US Forces
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161 | [1] | ||||
| North Vietnam
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Bibliography
- Notes
- ^ a b United States 2010
- ^ history.navy.mil (2000). "Chapter 5: The Final Curtain, 1973–1975". history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
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- ^ Lucas 2010
- References
- Lucas, Dean (2010). "Famous Picture:Vietnam Airlift". Famous Pictures Magazine. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Mather, Paul D. (1995). M. I. A.: Accounting for the Missing in Southeast Asia (1995 ed.). DIANE Publishing. ISBN 0-7881-2533-8.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Total pages: 207 - United States, Government (2010). "Statistical information about casualties of the Vietnam War". National Archives and Records Administration. Archived from the original on 26 January 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
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