The record for the most passengers taken in one three-day voyage was set by USS General W.
The seaborne portion of Operation Passage to Freedom, which included U.S., French, British, Taiwanese, and Polish ships, begins.ġ7 August: USS Menard (APA-201) is first Navy vessel to leave Haiphong for South Vietnam, embarking 1,924 refugees. Navy Task Force 90 is constituted in the Philippines from tank landing ships (LSTs) and cargo vessels. Refugees swamp Hanoi and Haiphong, seeking evacuation to the south. 1954ħ May: Climactic French defeat at Dien Bien Phu ultimately leads to July 1954 Geneva Accords, which ends French colonial rule and partition Vietnam at the 17th parallel.Īugust: Geneva Accords allows 300 days of free movement between (communist-controlled) North and (non-communist) South Vietnam. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Indochina, in Saigon to administer material assistance program to French Union forces MAAG’s small Naval Section (initially eight officers and men) also oversees development of base facilities.
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