Photographs relating to Vietnam and refugees

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Photograph number 45: May 5, 1975, Hong Kong: More than 1,500 South Vietnamese refugees are housed in this mini tent-city setting up inside the British Army camp at Sekkong in the new territories here May 5. The refugees, among the 4,500 rescued from a sinking ship 100 miles off coast of Vietnam on Friday night, were brought by a Danish freighter to Hong Kong Sunday evening.
Photograph number 46: April 28, 1975, Tent City, Guam: Aerial view shows part of the tent city here 4/27 where more than 20,000 Vietnamese refugees are living after fleeing from the embattled country of South Vietnam.
Photograph number 47: April 6, 1975 Vung Tau, South Vietnam: A Vietnamese child is lowered to the east area of a U.S. LST named "Boohung-Pioneer" here April 6th. The child was with a group of refugees that were evacuated from Cam Ranh Bay by U.S. Navy Vessels.
Photograph number 48: April 29, 1975, Saigon: Air America helicopter crewman helps evacuees up ladder to top of Saigon building April 29. This evacuation site is one of many in downtown area from which Americans and foreign nationals are being evacuated to waiting navy ships off coast.
Photograph number 49: April 6, 1975 Vung Tau, South. South Vietnamese soldiers check the papers of refugees from Cam Ranh Bay here April 6th as they arrive aboard the U.S. Navy LCVP "Sixty-nine".
Photograph number 50: March 17, 1975, Children in ruins along Highway 22 on the way northwest to Tay Ninh from Saigon.
Photograph number 51: April 26, 1975 Agana, Guam: South Vietnamese refugees relax inside the chapel of Anderson Airforce Base here April 25th. After an exhausted evacuation journey from the war torn country of Vietnam. More than 25,000 refugees have arrived at this Pacific Island of Guam in the past few days and they have made the facilities overwhelmed.
Photograph number 52: Camp Pendleton, California: Full House...with more than 18,000 refugees in camp waiting to be processed, the "no vacancy" sign has gone up. It takes more than 200 cooks to prepare 45,000 meals a day served at the camp that is filled to capacity. Some 25,000 refugees have been processed but there are between 60,000 and 100,000 evacuees backed up in the pipeline in across the Pacific.
Photograph number 53: April 29, 1975, Oceanside, California: Part of the first group of South Vietnamese refugees to arrive at Camp Pendleton, a sprawling Marine Corps Training Base in southern California, get used to their surroundings in a quonset hut shortly after their arrival in the United States. As they arrived in several plane loads, word came from Saigon that it had fallen to Northern Vietnamese forces.
Photograph number 54: Vietnamese refugee children are evacuated by net at port of Da Nang after being evacuated March 24th by navy boat from area north of Dan Nang. Communist troops and tanks swept over Tam Ky province capital south of Da Nang in a four hour blitzkrieg, cutting South Vietnam in two.
Photograph number 55: Nha Trang, S. Vietnam: An American official punches a man in the face trying to break him free from the doorway of an airplane already over loaded with refugees seeking to flee Nha Trang, April 1. The man was trying to board the evacuation plane. Nha Trang was overrun by Communist troops after this plane left.
Photograph number 56: April 9 1975, Vung Tau, S. Vietnam: Vietnamese refugees rush onshore upon arrival at a beach here April 8th by means of private boats. Thousands of refugees form the abandoned cities at the north poured into this once resort city at the coast of Vietnam about 60 miles Southeast of Saigon.
Photograph number 57: April 27, 1975, Saigon, South Vietnam: Residents of a housing area that was hit by a communist rocket early April 27th tramp through the rubble of their homes looking for belongings. Communist rockets hit Saigon for the first time in three and a half years killing 6 and wounding 22 persons.
Photograph number 58: April 4 1975, Fleeing advancing North Vietnamese forces, refugees arrive in Tuy Hoa area March 28. From Pleiku, Kontum and areas of Phu Bon, they were given rice and other foods as volunteers. Tuy Hoa proved no refuge as it was reported lost to the North Vietnamese April 2.
Photograph number 59: March 28 1975, South Vietnam: A helicopter lands in the background as a woman covers her eyes. Military helicopters have been airlifting soldiers and civilians to safety here from Pleiku, Phu Bon and Kon Tum.
Photograph number 60: May 15, 1975, South Vietnamese refugees form long chow lines a mess tents in "Little Saigon" area on the north end of Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps Training Base that is serving as a refugee processing center May 7. The original optimistic timetable for moving refugees from Vietnam to Cambodia through this processing center was being revised May 13. Security checks and the hung for sponsors contributed to the delays.
Photograph number 61: March 26 1975, Hue, South Vietnam: A navy boat pulls away from the dock at Thuan: a beach some six and a half miles from Hue loaded with troops and civilians as communist troops took over the old imperial capital.
Photograph number 62: April 14, 1975, Xuan Loc, South Vietnam, refugees hang on for dear life as they attempt to board a giant Chinook helicopter as it was taking off here April 14th following a supply drop to troops fighting along Highway One, some 38 miles northeast of Saigon.

Dates

circa 1975

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