Daly intended this flight for women and children only, leaving the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) to fight against the enemy. He gathered his flight crews and staff at Saigon’s Caravelle Hotel that night, telling them all three 727s were going to Da Nang the next morning. Daly appealed to the embassy to reinstate the air rescue but was turned down.ĭaly decided to continue the flights without embassy authorization. He met with South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu, who convinced him that the South Vietnamese forces at Da Nang would fight to the last if they were certain their families and relatives were safe. On March 28, citing the increasing danger, the embassy suspended flights in favor of an international seaborne rescue operation. Hundreds of thousands still awaited rescue. After two days, World Airways had evacuated nearly 2,000 civilians from Da Nang. Later flights that day experienced little disorder or panic.Īgain the next morning, Daly flew on World’s first flight, and again it was mobbed. Though dangerously overcrowded beyond its 131-passenger capacity, the 727 made it back to Saigon. When hundreds more pushed to get aboard, the guards used mace to turn them back. As the plane dropped its rear air stair and security guards went down to supervise an orderly boarding, people rushed and quickly filled the aircraft. Embassy security guards, found the situation nearly out of control. Aboard World’s first rescue flight to Da Nang on the morning of March 26, Daly, accompanied by two U.S. Daly, the owner and CEO of World Airways, Inc., put the company’s three Boeing 727-100s at the government’s disposal. American civilians, consulate staff, contractors, businessmen and their families and employees of civilian airlines were the first priority.Įdward J. Embassy stepped in to coordinate the evacuation, asking civilian-owned airlines to join an around-the-clock ferrying operation to move refugees to Saigon, about 500 miles away. authorities and led a daring mission to rescue women and children as the South Vietnamese army collapsed in 1975.Ī tsunami of more than a million refugees swept over the coastal city of Da Nang in early March 1975, desperately fleeing the rapidly advancing North Vietnamese Army as South Vietnam’s crumbling armed forces fell back.
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This fourth novel in the James Reece series was research intensive as I stepped into the mind of a terrorist. This month’s reading list selections consist of books I used to research THE DEVIL’S HAND.
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