Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Saigon ya fadi
zuwa sojojin Arewacin Vietnam da ke da goyon bayan Viet Cong a ranar 30 ga Afrilu, 1975. Schlesinger ya sanar da farkon safiyar ranar 29 ga Afrilu farkon Operation Frequent Wind, wanda ya haifar da kwashe ma'aikatan diflomasiyya na Amurka, sojoji da farar hula daga Saigon ta hanyar jirgin sama, wanda aka kammala a sanyin safiya na Afrilu 30. Ba wai kawai Arewacin Vietnam ta mamaye Kudancin Vietnam ba, amma 'yan gurguzu sun yi nasara a Cambodia lokacin da Khmer Rouge suka kama Phnom Penh a ranar 17 ga Afrilu, kamar yadda Pathet Lao a Laos suka yi nasara wajen kama Vientiane a ranar 2 ga Disamba. Kamar Saigon, an kwashe ma'aikatan farar hula da sojoji na Amurka daga Phnom Penh, an rage kasancewar diflomasiyyar Amurka a Vientiane sosai, kuma an rage adadin sauran ma'aikatan Amurka sosai.