What the records say
- When
- 1954 – 1955
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 16.00° N, 108.00° E
- Description
- 1954–1955 transport of people from North Vietnam to South Vietnam
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Operation Passage to Freedom
Relocation of people from North to South Vietnam (1954–1955)
Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe the propaganda effort and the assistance in transporting 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to non-communist South Vietnam between the years 1954 and 1955. The French and other countries may have transported a further 500,000.
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