The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the decades-long Vietnam War. Images of overloaded evacuation helicopters remain among the iconic scenes of the 1970s. Fifty years later, the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – 50 years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks burst through the gates of the south Vietnamese presidential palace and Vietnam became a single, unified Communist ...

This photo provided by Jeanie Jacobs Huffman shows her on the beach in June 2024, two miles away from where her father's plane and crew were discovered in 70 feet of water, in Thanh Hoa Province, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: More than two decades of war in Vietnam, first involving the French and then the Americans, ended with the last days of April 1975. Peter Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his ...

Fifty years ago this week Communist forces seized the city of Saigon bringing an end to the Vietnam war. It was a war that defined a generation with effects that reverberate today. We go to Laos were ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Wednesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation with a military parade and a ...

“I was over there when Saigon fell,” he said, “… and was part of the evacuation. Although they didn’t allow the evacuees on our ship because it’s an ammunition ship, I imagine they were concerned ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)-- Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Half a century ago, on April 30, 1975, United States military forces withdrew from ...