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Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War
Vietnamese refugees evacuated by helicopter arrive on board the USS Midway ahead of the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and decades of conflict.
Fall of Saigon: Navy man remembers 'hectic' last moments of Vietnam War
April 30, 1975 is known as the Fall of Saigon, when Communist forces from North Vietnam took over the capitol of South Vietnam, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Stephen Hardy was a dental tech, serving in the Navy from 1972-1975 during the Vietnam War.
Fifty years later, the surreal images of U.S. sailors and Marines scrambling to push, drag and muscle helicopters overboard ...
The war in Vietnam ended with the fall of Sàigòn 50 years ago, changing the course of many lives — from those who served, to ...
The 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon this week will trigger complex and mixed emotions for those who lived through it.
Her quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her ...
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated.
Between 1961 and 1971, the US military sprayed over 72 million litres of herbicides in Vietnam, including more than 45 million litres of Agent Orange, contaminated with toxic dioxin. Today, over three ...
On one mission, enemy fire shredded the left wing of John Postgate's plane and left his face bloodied with shrapnel.
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