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Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in the Fall of Saigon.
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.
On May 6th, we steamed past Vietnam and were officially back in a war zone for a day. While the story should end here, once we arrived in Guam to drop off all these aircraft, including the O-1 Bird Dog, we heard that a merchant vessel, the Mayaguez, was hijacked by the nation of Cambodia.
29 kwi 2010 · What role did the USS Midway play in the evacuation of U.S. and Vietnamese refugees who were fleeing Saigon during the final days of the Vietnam War? We speak to local historians about...
cargo to the South Vietnamese. Available to evacuate U.S. citizens, third country nationals, and selected Vietnamese, at first they carried only a small fraction of their passenger ca-pacity....
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.
Operating about 100 miles off the South Vietnamese coast in the Tonkin Gulf at a spot called “Yankee Station,” Midway aircraft were tasked to conduct a sustained aerial bombardment of North Vietnam as part of Operation Rolling Thunder.
