The final offensive (the Ho Chi Minh campaign) was launched on April 26. It was the largest military campaign in the 20 years ...

As the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end approaches, the echoes of the anti-war movement still resonate – perhaps ...

Their primary challenge will be harmonizing the many voices of protest into a mighty chorus of defiance. The movement has a ...

The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into communist North Vietnam ... “I can understand a bit better now how the war took place, how the ...

It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end ... Vietnam War, along with classes on military science and history. The conflict in French-occupied Indochina started ...

On April 30, 1975, the last American helicopter lifted off the roof of the US embassy in Saigon hours before North Vietnamese ...

“This black stone and these hard tears,” he sings in the first verse, “are all I got left now of you.” For more coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end, visit https ...

In observance of the coming 50th anniversary of its conclusion, here are nine key moments that defined the Vietnam War.

The Geneva Accords end the French Indochina War. July 21 ... 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City.

Michael Herr, who would eventually help write “Apocalypse Now,” was a Vietnam correspondent ... For more coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end, visit https://apnews.com ...

Strong, 76, who served in the Army, said it had been a long time since he last saw a V-100 before Suffolk County’s 50th anniversary event to commemorate the end of the Vietnam War for the United ...