Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Operation New Life (1975)
On the Refugee crises map as “Operation New Life, Guam”
Apr–Oct 1975 — More than 110,000 evacuees pass through tent cities on this US island territory before flying on to reception camps in California, Arkansas, Florida and Pennsylvania. Many had left expecting to be gone only a short while.
- When
- Type
- Turning point
- Chapter
- Fall of Saigon and the 1975 exodus (chapter 7 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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