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Vietnam War Refugees in Guam - A History of Operation New Life

English · Paperback / Softback

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More than 130,000 South Vietnamese fled their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands landed on the island of Guam on their way to the U.S. Many remained there. Guamanians and U.S. military personnel welcomed them. Funded by a $405 million Congressional appropriation, Operation New Life was among the most intensive humanitarian efforts ever accomplished by the U.S. government, with the help of the people of Guam. Without it, many evacuees would have died somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
This book chronicles a part of the first mass migration of Vietnamese "boat people," before and after the fall of Saigon in April 1975--a story still unfolding almost half a century later.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

¿1.¿The Last Days of Saigon

¿2.¿The Vietnamese Navy and the Trý¿ng Xuân

¿3.¿Task Force 76 and USS Kirk

¿4.¿Guam's Preparations

¿5.¿Operation New Life

¿6.¿Life in the Guam Camps

¿7.¿First, Second, and Third Wave Arrivals

¿8.¿Repatriates and the Thýõng Tín I Odyssey

¿9.¿Auxiliary Team and Sponsors

10.¿The Other Camps

11.¿Follow Up and Untold Stories

12.¿The Two Vietnams

Abbreviations

Appendix I: Chronology of Important Events (1975)

Appendix II: Motion

Appendix III: By the Numbers

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author

Nghia M. Vo, a Vietnamese-American, has written multiple books on Vietnamese culture. He helped found the nonprofit Saigon Arts, Culture & Education Institute and works to document Vietnamese-American culture through conferences, publications and a website.

Product details

Authors Nghia M. Vo, Vo Nghia M.
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.04.2022
 
EAN 9781476686998
ISBN 978-1-4766-8699-8
No. of pages 203
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
Weight 268 g
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Vietnam, Guam, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Vietnam War

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