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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.
29 kwi 2010 · On April 30th, 1975, the USS Midway took on board 3,000 people evacuated from Saigon as the North Vietnamese Army advanced to capture the capitol city. The fall of Saigon marked the end of...
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.
The Midway started to head west, towards Thailand. What happened was, pilots fleeing Vietnam, had flown a bunch of combat aircraft to Thailand and the Vietnamese government demanded their return. The Thai government argued with them until they heard we were coming, then finally “gave up.”
After a nearly eight-month deployment, Midway returned home to Alameda on Nov. 23, two days before Thanksgiving. While on Yankee Station, Midway’s airmen conducted 11,900 sorties over North Vietnam, striking ground targets, shooting down four MiGs, and rescuing more than half of the Frank Knox crew.
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.
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....
