World Airlines made its fourth and last refugee evacuation flight from Da Nang. The flight was designed to take out refugees, but 400 ARVN soldiers forced their way onto the plane. At the same time, the NVA entered the city center.
Of the ARVN in I Corps, 16,000 of the 160,000 in the area managed to escape. And of course, while they could not know it, for the most part all of the people escaping would soon simply be further south in the country when the Communist prevailed.
Da Nang had been the site of the first U.S. Marine Corps landings in Vietnam on March 8, 1965.
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Friday, March 28, 1975. Managing the defeat.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, Cambodia, Campaign 275, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Nelson Rockefeller, New Zealand, South Vietnam, U.S. Navy, Vietnam War
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