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2 unusual facts about Fall of Saigon


Dzung Tran

In 1978, Tran, his father and brother, escaped Vietnam after the communist capture of South Vietnam.

Tran My Van

She and her family were forced to leave their country when the North Vietnamese Army defeated the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), during the Fall of Saigon.


Foreign Assistance Act of 1974

Direct US involvement in Vietnam was already prohibited under the Case–Church Amendment, and the termination of US funding and indirect support for South Vietnam was a significant factor leading up to the Fall of Saigon.

Friesland Foods

After the 1975 Fall of Saigon, the factories manufacturing Sữa Ông Thọ, along with all other commercial and private properties were collectivized by the communists, and the facilities came under the state company Vinamilk, who continued to produce Sữa Ông Thọ condensed milk under the same name and used domestically and elsewhere in Indochina.

Names of Ho Chi Minh City

As noted, the now-official name commemorates North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh, who, although deceased by the time of the Fall of Saigon, was instrumental in the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Robert Macauley

Macauley first became involved in major charitable efforts following the Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident in April 1975, in which a United States Air Force Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying South Vietnamese orphans as part of Operation Babylift, crashed on landing killing more than 150 and leaving 175 survivors, many of them among the 2,000 children awaiting transportation to the United States in the days before Fall of Saigon to forces of the Viet Cong later that month.

Saigon Bridge

It is one of the most vital gateways for vehicles traveling from northern and central Vietnam to the city, and therefore was a key point of contention during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

Trung Dung

During the Fall of Saigon, his father, a lieutenant in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam was captured by the invading North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong allies, and sent to a reeducation camp.

William Tuohy

In addition to postings as bureau chief, he covered the Fall of Saigon, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, The Troubles of Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.


see also

American Community School in Saigon

Upon departure of U.S. military forces after the Paris Peace Accords, the facility became a new location for the existing Saigon Adventist Hospital, remaining such until April 1975, with the fall of Saigon to the military forces of North Vietnam.

Finding Moon

He would later set the story in Southeast Asia in 1975, coinciding with the fall of Saigon, the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the beginning of the Marcos era in the Philippines.

John Stockwell

Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975.