Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in ...

Fifty years ago, communist forces took over Saigon in a chaotic and tragic ending to what had become a lengthy and controversial conflict to determine the fate of Vietnam.

Why Bhumjaithai’s Grip on Power Is More Fragile Than It Looks The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese ...

The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen through the ...

Today’s Wabash Valley History is brought to you by Lynn’s Pharmacy in Downtown Brazil. This photo shows the Vietnam Memorial at the Vigo County Courthouse. The memorial ...

Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar ...

From asymmetric warfare to the risk of a prolonged conflict, comparisons between the US–Iran tensions and the Vietnam War are increasingly appearing in policy debates.

In forty years, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam has swung about as widely as is possible. In 1975, the United States cut diplomatic ties with the country after the end of the ...

Tran Le Xuan, South Vietnam’s “first lady,” was passionate in her support of the southern republic – and a fierce critic of American involvement in Indochina.

During the height of the Vietnam War, Army Spc. Doris Allen studied signs of a build-up of Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops in late 1967 within the flow of reports she monitored as an Army ...

People flee Saigon April 1975 with the help of the U.S. military. American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist North Vietnam invaded Saigon, the capital of the ...