April 30, 1975. Fifty years ago this week. How many now remember the events of that day? A North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon as the American war ...

WHEN the monsoon rains began last April, the Viet Cong and PAVN (People’s Army of North Vietnam) had deployed fifty-six main-force battalions in the central highlands of South Vietnam and ...

Sep 17, 2017 Sep 17, 2017 Updated Mar 3, 2023 0 The following is a look back at some of the most iconic images from AP photographers taken during the Vietnam War. Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick examine ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Wednesday marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, communist Viet Cong forces took over Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam. The Fall of Saigon ...

Debbie Eller paused, tears pricking at her eyes. “I won’t tell this easily,” she said, as she started to explain the wishbone. It had come from a Thanksgiving turkey in 1965, when Eller was on the ...

Near the Cambodian border, South Vietnam, June 1966: Medics treat squad leader Sgt. John Smith who got hit while on patrol. The 12-man squad of the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division was winding its ...

It could once have been said that the Vietnam War was the most photographed war in history, but you can’t say that anymore, because today everybody has a camera. Everything, it seems, is photographed ...

Saigon, December 1966: Soldiers from the 1st Logistical Command’s 71st Transportation Battalion are pressed into service unloading military cargo from ship to shore after thousands of Saigon’s ...

Eureka Mayor Fred Thevenin received a special gift 53 years ago this week from Lt. Col. Ho Nhut Quan, mayor of the city of Vung Tau in South Vietnam. Vung Tau, located along the coast 75 miles from Ho ...