The capture of Saigon – the capital of America's ally South Vietnam – by communist North Vietnamese forces on 30 April 1975, ...

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

Even among former enemies, the new American withdrawal from aid and democratic ideals is stirring deep feelings and confusion ...

The 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon this week will trigger complex and mixed emotions for those who lived through it.

Two Marines from Massachusetts — among the last remaining military service members in Saigon — recall the tense evacuation ...

Fifty years ago, in the chaotic final hours of the Vietnam War, American pilots pulled off the largest helicopter evacuation ...

Vietnamese refugees evacuated by helicopter arrive on board the USS Midway ahead of the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. The ...

FILE - A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia ...

They’d watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the final U.S. Marines piled ...

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later.

It has become an iconic symbol of American involvement in Vietnam: Scores of desperate Vietnamese attempting to board an ...

Loren Jenkins never intended to cover war, but in April 1975, he witnessed the fall of Saigon. From shredded files to hidden ...