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 ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — By April 29, 1975, the fall of Saigon was imminent and only a few dozen U.S. troops remained – down from more than half a million in 1969. The war was about to end, Vietnam ...

April marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, and the wounds of the Vietnam War remain open ‒ not just for Americans who fought there, but also for those who lost everything when the war ended in the ...

Peter Nguyen’s first English sentence at 9 years old was “Give me candy,” after his grandfather carried him away from the naval base their family had been staying at. They were fleeing Northern ...

WASHINGTON — Dozens of Vietnam veterans and their supporters gathered Thursday afternoon at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which marked the ...

It's been 50 years since the fall of Saigon, a day that marked the end of a long and brutal chapter in Vietnam’s history. In the years that followed, Ho Chi Minh City rose from the ashes of war, ...

On April 30, Vietnamese Americans in Southern California will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Saigon’s fall to North Vietnamese forces – Black April as the refugees who fled call it today. About ...

Westminster Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen left Vietnam crowded on a dinghy, fleeing the communist government in the years after the fall of Saigon, joining so many Vietnamese refugees who went on to ...