Ralph White’s book, ‘Getting Out of Saigon,’ chronicling the struggle to escape the Communist Vietnamese takeover, makes for ...

He had used it in his Pan Am days so the airline could fly to Saigon during the Vietnam War. One problem: Authorization had to come from the secretary of defense. During the late fall of 2000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The approach of the 50th anniversary of Saigon’s fall put a full-scale exhibition in motion. “We worked and continued to add interviews with 'Generation 1.5,’ or people that were children at ...

In 1992, she immigrated from Saigon to California and by 2002, the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association was hosting the signing of her first short story collection, “The Winter ...

AND BACK HERE AT HOME, THE VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN NEW ORLEANS IS INVITING EVERYONE TO A SPECIAL EVENT HONORING VIETNAM WAR VETERANS AND COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF ...

Orange County historians took a look this year at a major milestone for our community: the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which led to tens of thousands of refugees making a home here and ...