Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon

Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon

One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her onto a C-130 and life in America.

Santa Fe's Vietnamese community looks back 50 years after fall of Saigon

The city's small but close-knit diaspora is taking time this month to celebrate its culture as well as reflect on the end of the war.

The Vietnam War | A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973)

South Vietnam fights alone as Nixon and Kissinger find a way out for America. POWs return.

Vietnam is preparing for a very special holiday: 50 years ago on April 30, the Vietnam War ended with the capture of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), by North Vietnamese troops. The Vietnamese call the war the "American War" because of the U.S. intervention.

William C. Burk’s The Memoir of a Cold War Communicator To Be Featured at L.A. Times Festival of Books 2025

A Firsthand Account of a Navy Radioman’s Journey from Vietnam to the CIA LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, April 24, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- "The Memoir of a Cold War Communicator" by William C. Burk will be showcased at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2025, where readers will have the chance to explore this compelling firsthand account of military service, intelligence work, and global history. Visitors can find the book at Olympus Story Hous…

Operation Frequent Wind 50 Years Later

APRIL 24, 2025 – More than 20 years after the first U.S. advisors arrived in South Vietnam and nearly three years after the last U.S. combat troops withdrew from the country, the remaining U.S. personnel and at-risk locals were evacuated from the embassy and various other locations in Saigon, April 29 and 30, 1975, during Operation Frequent Wind. With 1,373 Americans and 5,595 Vietnamese and third-country nationals flown out of the city, it woul…