The fall of Saigon didn’t happen in a day, although the iconic photos of Huey helicopters rescuing people from the city’s rooftops have become symbolic of the tumultuous evacuation, 50 years ago ...

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 ...

A few days before Thanksgiving every year, Hoang Ly settles into a chair at his home in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to write a thank-you email to Stephen Greene, the lanky American who helped his family ...

On April 30, 1975, the last evacuation flight left the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. Along with the women and children evacuees the flight carried, it also carried the last vestige of hope for all ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, 2-year-old Phan Kim Phuong was handed up into a military aircraft, her future a near-complete blank save one truth: She would not grow up in Vietnam. Saigon was falling to the North ...

Next spring, April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. While there are photos and stories of the helicopter evacuations of the American diplomats and the South Vietnamese from ...

You've probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven't heard the radio ...

Editor’s Note: Hao-Nhien Vu is a former managing editor of Nguoi Viet, a Vietnamese-language newspaper. He is a professor of mathematics at Coastline College in Orange County, California. The views ...