The evacuees were taken to the Sixth Fleet the day before Saigon fell to the Communists, Ap- Image by © Nik Wheeler/Corbis US civilians board helicopter inside the American Embassy compound in Saigon to escape advancing North Vietnamese about to capture Saigon. (Photo by Jean-Claude LABBE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) ![]() The Fall of Saigon, Vietnam in April, 1975-Population fleeing on route. (Photo by Jean-Claude FRANCOLON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)Ĭivilian evacuees board US Marine helicopter inside US Embassy compound to be helilifted to the US Seventh Fleet ahead of Communist troops about to enter Saigon on the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30th 1975 - Image by © Nik Wheeler/Corbis The Fall of Saigon, Vietnam in April, 1975 Spontaneous cheers at the communists's arrival. Image by © Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CORBISĪs Saigon falls to the communist rule of North Vietnamese, US Ambassador to Vietnam, Graham Martin, speaks to the press Apafter an evacuation from South Vietnam. , Saigon, South Vietnam - During the Fall of Saigon, a boy on a jeep waves a transitional flag (used for 4 months in the middle of 1975) for South Vietnam, soon to reunite with the North. Image by © Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CORBIS , Saigon, South Vietnam - Female North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon in a jeep. , Saigon, South Vietnam - North Vietnamese troops seize the presidential palace in Saigon. , Saigon, South Vietnam - Popular jubilation as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon. ![]() , Saigon, South Vietnam - Female North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon carrying wooden rifles, red flags, and portrait of Ho Chi Minh. Image by © Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/Corbis North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon on tanks and trucks, ending the Vietnam War. , Saigon, Vietnam - Vietnamese celebrate after the fall of Saigon. ![]() , Saigon, South Vietnam - A North Vietnamese tank rolls into a compound during the fall of Saigon, 1975. However, brief their incursion may have been, the appearance of North Vietnamese forces in the South’s capital had been a shock.īy 1975, what remained of the South Vietnamese Army was not capable of withstanding the advance of the North and it was an inevitability that Saigon would fall to communist forces. Saigon had already experienced direct military action in 1968 when as part of the Tet Offensive North Vietnamese forces had appeared in Saigon and for a short time had entered the US Embassy. The fall of Saigon effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War.Īfter the introduction of Vietnamisation by President Richard Nixon, US forces in South Vietnam had been constantly reduced leaving the military of South Vietnam to defend their country against the North. Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th 1975.
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