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Major Buang, wife and 5 child. The evacuation continued all through the day and into the next. Thousand of refugees crammed on vessels of every description fled to the ships waiting offshore. Finally, on May 2, the ships of TF 76 sailed for Guam and the Philippines carrying souls along with another 44, on Military Sealift Command vessels; their cargo would turn out to be a pretty remarkable group of new citizens.

The first stop for many became Camp Pendleton in Southern California where the Marine Corps provided refuge and a helping hand to over 50, Vietnamese as they transitioned to life in the United States. This month, the base opened an exhibit to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Operation New Arrivals. Like all military operations, Operation Frequent Wind and Operation New Arrivals were debriefed, reviewed and studied to determine their success or failure.

The true measure of the success of the two operations, began to show in the next generation of those whom the Navy and Marines helped the spring and summer of Those , were followed by tens of thousands more, until today, Vietnamese-Americans number over 1. As noted by the Manhattan Institute in , the Vietnamese community has one of the highest rates of civic assimilation of any immigrant group in the United States.

Both of these men were small children among that first wave of citizens rescued by Task Force Navy Personnel U. Disaster Relief , Vietnam War , Vietnam. Related Content. Document Type. Vietnam Conflict Navy Communities. File Formats. Location of Archival Materials.

Author Name. Place of Event. Recipient Name. April 29, - Operation Frequent Wind. Evacuation of Phnom Penh and Saigon, April 29, Her belongings will be tagged with the same number due to the language barrier between the refugees and Marines.

Official U. Marine Corps photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.