![]() ![]() It is not clear to this reviewer that this was the case. In comparison a far smaller group of South Vietnamese, estimated to number about 14,000, elected to move to the North.įrankum also claims that Passage to Freedom was significant for creating an American moral commitment to defend South Vietnam from Hanoi. When added to the half million Vietnamese transported by the French a very significant support group was created in the south for the new Republic of Vietnam led by Ngo Dinh Diem. Using sea, air, and ground resources, the French also were relocating Vietnamese refugees to South Vietnam.įrankum concludes that the Passage to Freedom was a resounding success.īetween August 1954 and May 1955 naval and MSTS ships evacuated approximately 310,000 individuals. In carrying out his duties, Admiral Sabin worked closely with naval, military, and civilian officials of France, the departing colonial power in Indochina. Sabin, the commander of American amphibious forces in the Western Pacific, deployed in this operation more than a hundred naval ships as well as civilian-manned vessels assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). The senior officer primarily responsible for the Passage to Freedom was Rear Admiral Lorenzo S. That agreement allowed the two Vietnamese regimes a period of 300 days to resettle civilians who wished to leave their native regions. This operation, known as the Passage to Freedom, was authorized by the Geneva Accords of 1954 ending the First Indochina War. ![]() Navy's role in transporting more than 300,000 North Vietnamese refugees to South Vietnam. Ronald Frankum, a professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, a former associate director of Texas Tech's Vietnam Center and Archive, and the author of three previous books relating to the Vietnam War, turns his attention in this volume to the U.S. ![]()
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