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 downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...
Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S.
In the buzzing matrix of Hanoi’s old quarter sits Phở Thìn, one of 700-or-so pho restaurants that speckle this thousand-year-old city. Phở Thìn is practically outfitted with stainless steel tables, ...
A new initiative at the University of West Florida is helping pensacola veterans share their memories from serving in the ...
THE STORY. OLIVIA. MILITARY PARK IS NOW FILLED WITH POLITICIANS, VETERANS, VIETNAMESE AMERICANS WHO IMMIGRATED TO OKLAHOMA AFTER THE WAR AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. WHILE I’M TOLD THIS IS A SOMBER OCCASION ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Vietnam War soldiers — one still living, one killed in action — received the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony on Monday, nearly 50 years after they threw themselves into ...
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 ...