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The two major evacuation points chosen for Operation Frequent Wind were the DAO Compound next to Tan Son Nhut Airport for American and Vietnamese civilian evacuees, and the U.S. Embassy, Saigon for embassy staff.
flying from Saigon's Presidential Palace. Although FREQUENT WIND, the final air evacuation of Viet-nam, was over, the airlift of Vietnamese ref gees to islands in the Pacific continued....
Considered by many to be the 30 most dangerous hours on board the aircraft carrier USS Midway, Operation Frequent Wind was one of the largest rescue missions in US history. As the communist-led North Vietnamese Army invaded Saigon, the US Navy was called in to rescue thousands of South Vietnamese citizens trapped in the capital city.
With the fall of Saigon imminent, the USS Midway, along with a flotilla of U.S. Navy ships steamed to the waters off South Vietnam for the emergency evacuation. On April 29, 1975, Operation Frequent Wind commenced. For those involved, this massive humanitarian effort was nothing less than extraordinary.
Frequent Wind. Operation Frequent Wind: Escape From Vietnam. By Mark Nojiri, AT1, IM-3, 74-76; 78-81. During Thanksgiving of 1974, as a member of the USS Midway’s crew, I visited Hong Kong (then a British Crown Colony), and met a woman who had just retired from embassy duty in Saigon, South Vietnam.
Ten U.S. Air Force H-53 helicopters from the 56th Special Operations Wing flew aboard Midway April 20 to take part in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Vietnam. On April 29, the evacuation commenced. The first H-53s departed Midway at 2:45 p.m. local time bound for landing zones in Saigon.
25 kwi 2019 · When South Vietnam formally surrendered on April 30th, the evacuations stopped. Including the Midway ’s 3,073 evacuees, 50,493 people were flown out by transport aircraft over the month, another 1,373 Americans and 5,595 Vietnamese and other nationals were lifted out by U. S. helicopters.
