April 30, 2015, marks 40 years since the former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the communist North Vietnamese forces. Thousands of people, Americans and Vietnamese were airlifted in the ...

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly ...

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In the chaotic final days before the Vietnam she knew collapsed in 1975, Bang Van Pham was rushed onto a U.S. military plane with her newborn son, headed to a land she had learned about in school but ...

The Biden administration has rejected comparisons of Afghanistan and Vietnam. But a Vietnam veteran who earned the Medal of Honor said the current situation is "just like Vietnam in 1975." The Taliban ...

The photographs in the Smithsonian’s exhibit “Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon: Vietnamese America Since 1975” capture the desperate journey more than one million Vietnamese refugees made to the ...

When Pan American World Airways 747 Clipper "Unity" lifted skyward from Tan Son Nhat Airport, Saigon, on April 24, 1975, it meant safety and a new life for the 61 Pan Am employees — all but three ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop ...

Rory Kennedy thought she already knew something of the Vietnam War, of its tragedy and lingering scars on America and the Vietnamese. When she was approached about making a documentary on the final ...

You've probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven't heard the radio ...