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 ...
In the early morning of April 30, 1975, the only U.S. military service members who remained in Vietnam were several dozen Marines on the ground in Saigon. They were waiting to get out themselves. A ...
In Saigon, April 1975, throngs of desperate Vietnamese people scaled the walls of the American embassy, hoping to get to any helicopter that would carry them away to safety. In Kabul, August 2021, ...
The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the ...
For retired Rear Adm. Lawrence Chambers, Sunday’s marking of 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War was a red-letter day. “I have to tell you [that] ever since we scheduled this event years ago, my ...
50 YEARS LATER. THE PAN AM 747 JET FOR BONNIE DUNCAN. WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 1975 IS MORE THAN JUST A BLACK AND WHITE MEMORY. 31 OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ORPHANS FLOWN IN LAST NIGHT. THE REGISTERED ...
A North Vietnamese tank rolled through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon in 1975, signifying the fall of South Vietnam. 1975 File Photo / The Associated Press On April 30, 1975, American ...
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