It effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with helicopter flights taking staff and dependants from the roof of the US Embassy in ...

South Vietnam to prop up an authoritarian government ... Yes, Vietnam was a military defeat that killed some 58,000 American soldiers and left 75,000 severely disabled—reason enough, for many ...

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese veterans and their families are still battling political and logistical ...

Narrated by Ethan Hawke, the docuseries combines vivid footage of battles with interviews with people who fought on both ...

Other needs were met inside South Vietnam. Main force Vietcong units ... their ability to fight heavily armed and well-trained American soldiers. Initially, local guerrillas were given only ...

The new Vietnam War Memorial in Dunwoody, Georgia, honors both American soldiers and South Vietnamese soldiers who fought against communism during the Vietnam War. A dedication ceremony for the ...

It’s been 50 years since the USA bowed to the inevitable and pulled out of Vietnam, in the midst of harrowing scenes of anguish and chaos.

However, the communist Viet Minh forces trapped the soldiers inside the garrison ... As the leader of South Vietnam he was helped by America, and proved an unpopular choice with the Vietnamese ...