He was captured as a POW after the fall of Saigon and was a prisoner in their "re-education camps" for five years. For more information, visit the Thanking Vietnam Veterans in Barnegat Facebook page.
It’s been half a century since the fall of Saigon in April 1975, when Lâm and his family left their native Vietnam for a new ...
The war ended April 30, 1975, when the North Vietnamese army overran Saigon as the South Vietnamese army and its government collapsed. The evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon ended on April 30.