The transition of Saigon from an idyllic paradise to a colonial city is captured in an exhibition of 19th century photos and paintings. A wharf on the Saigon River in 1896. Ben Nghe Canal in the 1860s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women pose for photos outside the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8. The country will celebrate the 50th ...
In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly ...
People try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the ...
NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese escaped their war-torn homeland following the collapse of South Vietnam and the fall of Saigon 50 years ago. Minh Duong left on a military vessel ...
Scenes from the Taliban's capture of Kabul have evoked memories of the 1975 fall of the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government in Saigon to communist North Vietnamese forces. The U.S., then and now, ...