As a young U.S. intelligence analyst in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Chuck Searcy never thought that 50 years later he ...

U.S. officials are not attending the main public event commemorating the end of the Vietnam war in Ho Chi Minh City this week ...

Since 2000, the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project has gathered roughly 121,000 submissions of veterans' personal ...

Asian American veterans share emotional stories 50 years after Vietnam war: ‘Looking like the enemy’ - In one video, a former ...

This combination of photos shows the wrecked exterior of the Victoria Hotel, a U.S. officers’ billet in Saigon, South Vietnam, after it was attacked by Viet Cong fighters in April 1, 1966, top, and ...

Decades later, on April 18, 2025, the same site—now the Phu Nhuan Sports Center in Ho Chi Minh City This combination of images shows the exterior of the Victoria Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City ...

South Vietnam had a population of roughly 23 million people ... Many Vietnamese from Fort Chaffee, which held 25,000 refugees at one time, ended up in Oklahoma City. Gov. David Boren wanted to ...

The ceremony will pay tribute to Vietnam War veterans and thousands of South Vietnamese refugees who evacuated from Saigon. Roughly 3,000 people are expected to attend the flight-deck ceremony on ...

was captured by North Vietnam. This event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and Vietnamese people. Thousands of these refugees ...

Ho Chi Minh City has rapidly changed since the Vietnam War, when it was called Saigon, the capital of the former South Vietnam. Old buildings have been demolished, replaced by high-rises and new ...

By contrast, the Independence Palace, the former home and workplace of South Vietnam’s president, is today set up specifically to ensure people ... Likewise, much of the historic core of the city is ...