Ahead of the capital of South Vietnam being captured by northern communists on April 30, 1975, the streets were gripped by panic as thousands tried desperately to flee ‒ many heading to the U.S ...
April marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, and the wounds of the Vietnam War remain open ‒ not just for Americans who fought there, but also for those who lost everything when the war ended ...
After almost two decades of fighting and millions of lives lost, the Vietnam war came to an end in 1975. Hardly anyone believed that after 19 years of bitter fighting, the conflict would be ...
BARNEGAT, NJ — This year marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, the end of the Vietnam War. It was also the same year that Barnegat resident Thy Cavagnaro escaped Vietnam with her family.
Captain Gerald "Gerry" Berry was a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps during the fall of Saigon in April 1975. Capt. Berry was tasked with evacuating U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin from the ...
Đặng Thơ Thơ, in her thirties and in a new country, was able to turn what was just a hobby in Vietnam into her occupation in the United States. In 1992, she immigrated from Saigon to ...