View the full broadcast version here. In April of 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance was crumbling. Approximately 5,000 Americans remained ...
As Saigon was falling, Janet Nguyen’s uncle – an officer in the South Vietnamese Army – was taken before his village and executed. After the city fell on April 30, 1975, the communists put ...
To counter the American build-up, Vietcong recruitment would be stepped up and more North Vietnamese Army troops would be ... only 20 miles from Saigon. The base area at Cu Chi was a vast network ...
A group of Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) personnel hustles about on the fire pad at HMAS Cerberus' RAN School of Ship Safety ...
As the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon approaches in April, Nguyen emphasized the need to address misconceptions about the war and the South Vietnamese army. The museum features the ...
In 10th grade, he volunteered for the Vietnamese army, calling in strikes with an artillery unit during a brutal border war with China that began in 1979. Later, as a military journalist ...