29 tháng 3 / March 29th

 

 29 tháng 3 năm 1973 - 

Operation Homecoming was completed when the last of 591 U.S. prisoners were released and returned from Gia Lam Airport in Hanoi. 

 The operation began on February 12 with the release of 142 prisoners. 

29 tháng 3 năm 1973 người tù binh Hoa Kỳ cuối cùng rời Việt Nam trong số 591 tù binh Hoa Kỳ bị giam giữ tại Hà Nội, chương trình Trở Về Nhà bắt đầu từ 2 tháng 12 năm 1973 với 142 tù binh được trao trả.

On this day 45 years ago, the last remaining American combat troops pulled out of Vietnam, ending direct U.S. military involvement in the war following the signing of a peace accord.

Two months earlier in Paris, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed the accord, designed to allow Americans to withdraw “honorably” from the war, which killed more than 58,000 Americans and deeply divided the country.

Anti-Vietnam war protesters march up Fifth Avenue in New York City on April 10, 1966.

Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance farther, nor be reinforced.
An exit strategy had been in place since 1969, President Richard Nixon’s famed “Vietnamization” policy, which he unveiled in a televised address to the nation.

​As the last American commander in Vietnam left, a force of 7,200 American civilians employed by the U.S. Department of Defense stayed behind to aid the South Vietnamese in their continuing battle with the Communist government in the North.
The war spanned three American presidencies, starting with President John F. Kennedy, who first sent military advisors to aid the South Vietnamese, through the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, when American troop casualties spiked and the war became increasingly unpopular under the direction of then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, all the way to the Nixon presidency.

Then-vice presidential nominee Gerald R. Ford (R) listens as President Richard Nixon, accompanied by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Oct. 13, 1973.

President Nixon was accused of — and repeatedly denied — sabotaging Johnson’s efforts to end the war in 1968. Just last year, notes from H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s closest aide, revealed that the president in fact directed his campaign efforts to scuttle peace talks over fears it might grant his opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an edge in the 1968 election.

An American soldier reads a paperback book while waiting to leave Vietnam along with the last remaining U.S. military personnel in 1973.

In Vietnam, the peace deal quickly fell apart. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed.
At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting, making that year the war’s deadliest.
On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces.

Vietnam War Quote

There is a simple prescription for peace--leave your neighbors alone."

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, May 22, 1964

Video ngày cuối VN war

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Ngày 29 tháng 03

29 tháng 3: Ngày Liệt sĩ tại Madagascar (1947); tiết Thanh niên tại Đài Loan.

• 57 – Hoàng thái tử Lưu Trang đăng cơ làm hoàng đế thứ hai của triều Đông Hán, tức Hán Minh Đế.
• 1853 – Manchester (hình) được ban tư cách thành phố, đây là thành phố công nghiệp đầu tiên trên thế giới, và trung tâm của vùng đô thị lớn thứ nhì tại Anh.
• 1974 – Các nông dân tại Tây An, Trung Quốc tình cờ phát hiện đội quân đất nung được tùy táng cùng Tần Thủy Hoàng.
• 1976 – Bay trên tổ chim cúc cu của đạo diễn Tomáš Forman trở thành phim thứ hai trong lịch sử giành cả năm hạng mục chính tại một lễ trao giải Oscar.