Thpusands of Vietnamese refugees went to Guam straight from Saigon. I was in the Red Cross and we worked for weeks getting people processed, and camps were set up on Anderson AFB. You don't hear much about that but I was there, I remember the people very well. They were all connected in some way to the American embassy or worked in some capacity. Most would have been shot if they had remained in Vietnam. Many of their family members were executed for involvement in south Vietnamese government.
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NVA T-55 tanks crashed through the South Vietnamese Capital's gates on 30 April 1975; and parked themselves onto the capital's front lawn. Saigon surrendered.
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Did Ho Chi Minh city revert to Saigon?Ans 2.I'm Vietnamese so I know the answer to this. You can call the city Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon, both are correct.
Operation Cedar Falls.
The capital of the Republic of South Vietnam (RVN); Saigon.
The fall of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, was in April 1975. By then The United states had withdrawn almost all of it's troops.