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The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon -- and those who returned

  • Written by Jana Lipman, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University
imageVietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975.National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, Box 19, declassification number 984082, CC BY

More than 120,000 people fled Vietnam after the North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30, 1975.

This chaotic evacuation has been captured in iconic photos, documentary...

Read more: The South Vietnamese who fled the fall of Saigon -- and those who returned

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