Operation Frequent Wind
29-30 April 1975 - 34 Years after..
Last Web Site Update: 0957hrs. on 2009/04/30
Purpose
The Fall of Saigon Marines
Association
Operation Frequent Wind
29-30 April 1975 -
34
Years after..
Last Web Site Update:
0957hrs. on
2009/04/30
Purpose
This site is intended to be a focal point for those who were there during the Fall of Saigon, to remember our fallen warriors Cpl McMahon and LCpl Darwin Judge (the last servicemen killed in action during the Vietnam War), and, finally, to preserve our on hand knowledge of this key event in American history through first account stories, documents, and links. http://www.marineheritage.org is a link in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps
The Fall of Saigon Marines Association is a Non Profit Association and Tax Exempt. As such, your valued charitable contributions are much appreciated
This site
has been reviewed by History Television staff and has
now been added to the Archive in the Wars & Conflicts
section.
Rest
In Peace - MSgt Colin D. Broussard, USMC
Graham Martin
(Ambassador, South Vietnam)
Detachments involved in the
evacuations in Vietnam
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Read the Fall of Saigon Stories by
the Marines that served and died
Ford Museum
The exhibit is heightened by the display of an authentic Vietnam-era UH-1
Huey helicopter, and the actual staircase that sat on top of the U.S. Embassy in
Saigon when that city fell to the Communist Army of North Vietnam.
MGySgt Doug Drummond's
retirement ceremony.
(The Marine Corps flew in a Marine Corps CH46 that participated in the Fall of
Saigon for the retirement ceremony)
Fall of Saigon Story and Marine of the Month
-April, 2008-
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LCpl D. R. Serbus |
Photo taken at on or around the Fall of Saigon April 1975
Read
all other Fall of Saigon Stories
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lleft to right:
President Gerald Ford,
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
Congressman Duncan
Hunter (R),
Ambassador Graham Martin,
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General
M. W. Hagee USMC.
"That was probably the hardest day of my presidency for me... I think
we made a very heroic effort and did the best we could under the worst of
circumstances. I look upon it as the sadness of a retreat that I'll never
forget."
Former President Gerald R. Ford
Newsweek Magazine, March 8, 1999
Leatherneck Magazine
Calls the Fall of Saigon
Dreaming of White Christmas
The Fall of Saigon -America's Adopted Alamo
Click
here to read the Fall of Saigon story
Interesting links related to the Fall of Saigon
President Gerald Ford
picture taken April 29, 1975
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Fall of Saigon declassified documents and
links
Reunions
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25th Memorial/Reunion @ Marshalltown, Iowa for LCpl Judge |
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26th Memorial/Reunion @ Massachusetts, Woburn for Cpl Charles McMahon Jr. |
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30th Memorial/Reunion @ Quantico Virginia and Washington D.C. |
30th Fall of Saigon Anniversary Interviews and Media links
Videos, Pictures, Documents and Declassified Documents
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Quotes and videos from the Marines of the Fall of Saigon |
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The American consulate in Can Tho |
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Misc. Fall of Saigon Video |
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Marine Security Guard Battalion Video |
Pictures
Eight Declassified documents
Eight declassified documents
of the Fall of Saigon
Please view our NEW Guestbook.
View Our Guestbook
Sign Our Guestbook
1st Guestbook
2nd
Guestbook
3rd
Guestbook
Any questions. Ask our
Fall of Saigon Marines Association Officers
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President MGySgt John Valdez USMC, Retired |
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Vice President & Public Affairs Officer Cpl John Ghilain USMC Email: [email protected] |
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Secretary
Email: [email protected] |
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Attorney |
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Treasurer
Sgt Bill Newell
USMC |
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Historian Colonel Steve Hasty USMC Email: [email protected] |
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Webmaster
CWO Kevin Maloney |
Webmaster
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The United Sates
Marine Corps, The Department of Defense, The State Department and
the United States Government
has not authorized this site.
The Fall of
Saigon Association is a Non Profit Association.
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