Twenty minutes. That’s how long Nho Trong Nguyen had to save his wife and son. The day was April 26, 1975 – four days before the fall of Saigon – and the South Vietnamese congressman had just hung up ...

If you had to boil down the entire Vietnam War to one moment in time, it would be 5:20 a.m. on April 30, 1975. "It was a microcosm of the whole war," retired U.S. Army Col. Stu Herrington recalled.

Hubert Van Es' photograph capturing the 1975 fall of Saigon became one of the most enduring images from the Vietnam War. (Mike Clarke/AFP via Getty Images) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the ...

Hung Vu, 73, a former South Vietnamese army officer who left the country in 1975, poses with a photo of himself taken during the Vietnam War at his army surplus store in the Little Saigon neighborhood ...

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. -- Forty years after the fall of Saigon, symbols of the failed war in Vietnam survive as a painful, divisive legacy for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Americans now living ...

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 ...

Cleared in 1983 to make way for Le Van Tam Park, the former Massiges or European Cemetery (Cimetière Européen) was the most famous French cemetery in Saigon. To coincide with the release of hitherto ...