Lecture of the Month
USS Midway Mission “Operation Frequent Wind”
Guest Speaker: Andy Hill
Date & Time: Saturday, May 23rd, at 1:30pm
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Relive the hair-raising mission of the USS Midway, which rescued some 3,000 desperate “at risk” refugees from Saigon, Vietnam on the last two days of April 1975. Midway was the “tactical evacuation commander” for Task Force 76 (TF-76) airlift operations, and participated in the largest humanitarian rescue mission in U.S. Navy history.
Andy Hill describes the delicate operation that was the mission to Vietnam, not to wage war, but to rescue more than 3,000 refugees in South Vietnam’s final hours. Hill will share the story of this mission that broke rules and set precedents, as a Navy crew conducted the ship’s flight deck operations with the embarked refugees. It gave thousands a second chance at freedom.
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