The Fall of Saigon
| Fall of Saigon | |||||||
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| Part of the 1975 Spring Offensive | |||||||
 CIA agents helps evacuees up a ladder onto an Air America helicopter April 29, 1975, shortly before Saigon fell |
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 North Vietnam Viet Cong
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Lê Duẩn Võ Nguyên Giáp Văn Tiến Dũng Trần Văn Trà Lê Đức Anh Nguyễn Hữu An Lê Trọng Tấn |
Dương Văn Minh Vũ Văn Mẫu Nguyễn Hữu Hạnh Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Lộc Lê Nguyên Vỹ Lâm Văn Phát Lý Tòng Bá |
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| 120,000 | 31,000 | ||||||
North Vietnamese victory:
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng) on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The PAVN, under the command of General Văn Tiến Dũng, began their final attack on Saigon on April 29, 1975, with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces commanded by General Nguyễn Văn Toàn suffering a heavy artillery bombardment. This bombardment at the Tân Sơn Nhất Airport killed the last two American servicemen to die in Vietnam, Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge. By the afternoon of the next day, the PAVN had occupied the important points of the city and raised their flag over the South Vietnamese presidential palace. The city was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City, after the late North Vietnamese President Hồ Chí Minh.
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