Martin was a committed anti-Communist, but he seriously underestimated the severity of the South Vietnamese situation, to the point that in the spring of 1975, when most American officials were convinced that South Vietnam was doomed to collapse, he continued to believe that Saigon and the Mekong Delta area could be held because of the tenacity of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) in the Battle of Xuan Loc under the command of General Le Minh Dao.

" He defected and moved to Saigon and joined the forces of the French-backed State of Vietnam.

He later served at eight different Foreign Service posts in Asia ( including the US Embassy, Saigon ), Europe and Latin America ; and he also held important positions at the State Department and the White House.

His wife and eldest son ended up in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, while his two daughters and second son fled Saigon with a US State Department employee to Seattle.

The Marine Brigade commander, General Lê Nguyên Khang, appealed to the US Embassy in Saigon to not allow Khiêm to depart the U. S. As a result of this, Taylor messaged the State Department that " Regardless what ultimate outcome may be we feel Khiêm's arrival here ... would only add tinder to what this evening appears to be very explosive situation with possibilities of internecine strife between armed forces units ... Urge he not try return Saigon until situation more clarified.

Established under Emperor Bảo Đại, the Chief of State of South Vietnam, the airline flew over one million passengers, including during the Vietnam War, before its collapse due to Fall of Saigon.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U. S. begins to evacuate U. S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.

* 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

* 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

* Quan Am Pagoda, of Cho Lon, Saigon, Vietnam

* 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the USS Card while docked at Saigon.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.

The American public turned against the war eventually resulting in a withdrawal of US troops and the seizure of Saigon by communist forces in 1975 and communist victory in Vietnam.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

* Saigon, Vietnam

Southern Vietnam up to just north of Hue is antipodal to the southern Peruvian Amazon and Andes, with Saigon close to Atalaya, Peru, and Cuzco close to Pleiku, Vietnam.

In an interview by Democracy Nows Amy Goodman on October 16, 2007, Ono explained, " He was in French Indochina which is Vietnam actually ... in Saigon.

* July 19 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.

The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums.

The rapid flow of people led to a fast-paced and uncontrolled urbanization ; an estimated 1. 5 million people were living in Saigon slums, while many South Vietnamese elites and U. S. personnel lived in luxury.

She led the way in Diệm's programs to reform Saigon society in accordance with Catholic values.

Students at Saigon University boycotted classes and rioted, which led to arrests, imprisonments and the closure of the university ; this was repeated at Huế University.

In 1949, non-communist Vietnamese politicians formed a rival government in Saigon led by former emperor Bao Dai.

In Indochina during the 1930s, Vietnamese Trotskyism led by Ta Thu Thau was a significant current, particularly in Saigon.

While Kennedy had originally supported the policy of sending military advisers to Vietnam, he had begun to alter his thinking due to what he perceived to be the ineptitude of the Saigon government and its inability and unwillingness to make needed reforms ( which led to a US-supported coup which resulted in the death of Diem ).

In May 1955, he led VNA forces in the Battle of Saigon, when they dismantled the private army of the Bình Xuyên crime syndicate in urban warfare in the district of Chợ Lớn.

Nguyễn Văn Lém ( referred to as captain Bay Lop ) ( died 1 February 1968 in Saigon ) was a member of the Viet Cong supposedly led a death squad and was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive.

He led the Lien Minh on a triumphal march into Saigon.

In 1965, Trưởng led the 5th Airborne Battalion on a helicopter assault into the Hắc Dịch Secret Zone in the vicinity of the Ong Trinh Mountain in Phước Tuy Province ( now Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province ) southeast of Saigon, the base area of the 7th Việt Cộng Division.

The rapid North Vietnamese advances of March and early April led to increased concern in Saigon that the city, which had been fairly peaceful throughout the war and whose people had endured relatively little suffering, was soon to come under direct attack.

In September 1945, Gracey led 20, 000 troops of the 20th Indian Division to occupy Saigon.

In 1975, he was the Judicial Advisor Saint Vincent Church Uprising, Saigon, which led to his arrest by the Vietnamese Communist and he received a life sentence.

* The First Indochina War in Vietnam that resulted in the defeat of the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954, and brought the Communist Party of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh to power in North Vietnama victory followed closely by the protracted guerrilla warfare-dominated Vietnam War ( 1957 – 1975 ), which in turn led to the Fall of Saigon and the driving-out of occupying U. S. military forces there, and the unification of North and South Vietnam by communist guerrilla forces into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Ineffective attempts the enforce the ban on Christian missionaries was also the biggest source of trouble, including the execution of a Spanish bishop which was used to justify the French and Spanish invasion that led to the fall of Saigon.

From Manila, he went in-country Vietnam as officer in charge of PCF-39, based at the mouth of the main Mekong River channel that led to Saigon.