September 2 & 3 @ Buffalo Naval & Military Park’s Hangar Building The Black Lions 1st ID Vietnam Living History Group* is a Living History group in the Western New York area that educates the public ...
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 ...
"I could not shake the feeling that today was going to be a scary day," a Vietnam veteran writes in this War Horse reflection.
From the early 1960s to 1975, the United States fought alongside South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam and the Viet ...
April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and the end of a war that has profoundly shaped Vietnam and its place in the world. Today’s Vietnam is a world away from 1975; it is a young ...
CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- "I joined the army when I was 17," said Ronald Wentworth of Toms River, New Jersey. "When I finally turned 18, they sent me to Vietnam in November of 1969." Wentworth ...
Vietnam has its own version of that turning point in history 80 years ago when the Japanese lost World War II — and their rule over much of Asia. Just as Communist China celebrates the occasion as a ...
To pick up from the end of my collaborator’s dive into the history of activism on campus against the Vietnam War, it’s time to go further and answer the next question: What should we make of ...
"Vietnam: The Real War, Photographs from The Associated Press" will be on display at the Upcountry History Museum in Greenville from Saturday, May 28, until Sunday, Aug. 21. Museum officials said this ...
Wednesday marks 50 years since North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. For decades, a congressionally-created project through the ...
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 ...