<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Passage to Freedom">Operation Passage to Freedom</a>, the evacuation of 310,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnamese people">Vietnamese</a> civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Union" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French Union">French</a> Army from communist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a> following the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>, ends.