April 30, 2015, marks 40 years since the former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the communist North Vietnamese forces. Thousands of people, Americans and Vietnamese were airlifted in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the chaotic final days before the Vietnam she knew collapsed in 1975, Bang Van Pham was rushed onto a U.S. military plane with her newborn son, headed to a land she had learned about in school but ...

Rory Kennedy thought she already knew something of the Vietnam War, of its tragedy and lingering scars on America and the Vietnamese. When she was approached about making a documentary on the final ...

News of a DNA match between Vo Huu Nhan, upper right, and his father, Robert Thedford Jr., a retired deputy sheriff in Texas, set in motion a complex chain of events. Thedford, upper left, in Army ...

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 ...