Crewmen Take Vietnamese Refugees Aboard
4/3/1975
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In the years that followed the fall of Saigon and the North Vietnamese takeover of South Vietnam, 1.6 million Vietnamese refugees fled the Communist regime. President Ford signed the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act on May 23, 1975, facilitating the settlement of 130,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees in the United States.
The original caption for this photograph reads: South China Sea...Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado.
This primary source comes from the General Records of the Department of the Navy.
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558518Full Citation: Photograph 428-K-108890; South China Sea...Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft.; 4/3/1975; General Color Photographic File of the Department of Navy, 1958 - 1981; General Records of the Department of the Navy, Record Group 80; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/south-china-sea, May 2, 2024]