Some British soldiers escaped, but 33 of them were captured and led away to an unknown destination.
When Chinese reinforcements arrived, the remaining 300 soldiers of the 57th division escaped the city.
Wounded soldiers often escaped from hospitals to return to the fight.
Soviet soldiers also sometimes escaped across the border, though this was very rare.
Out of the 305,000 men that entered the river, only 2,700 soldiers escaped death.
The surviving soldiers escaped and hid in the desert outside of town.
The police could not contain the crowd, and finally the American soldiers escaped, he said.
But did this soldier really escape from a Vietnamese prison and return at all?
Ogier noted some blood upon the wall over which the soldier had escaped, but thought nothing of it.
Individual soldiers "escaped" from the camp and made their way on foot to the American lines.