Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe the propaganda effort and the assistance in transporting 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese me
Up to a million people (about 800 thousand of them are Catholics) left communist North Vietnam during Operation Passage to Freedom after the country was partitioned (USS Calaveras County).
Propaganda poster exhorting Northerners to move South-title: "Go South to avoid Communism". Bottom caption: "Southern compatriots are welcoming Northern brothers and sisters with open arms."
North Vietnamese refugees move from a French landing ship to the USS Montague during Operation Passage to Freedom in August 1954.
USS Menard, the first American ship to participate in the naval evacuation
The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War or the Vietnamese War of Independence, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Communist-led Viet
Operation Passage to Freedom
…further 500,000. In the wake of the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Geneva Accords of 1954 decided the fate of French Indochina after eight years of war between the French Union forces and the Viet Minh, which fought for Vietnamese independence under communist rule. The accords resulted in the partition…
Clockwise After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950 M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954 A Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on French aircraft carrier Arromanches operating in the Gulf of Tonkin
June 1945 public ceremony in commemoration of the Yên Bái mutiny
Võ Nguyên Giáp and Ho Chi Minh (1945)