The North Vietnamese came south in a wave. It was unbelievable how quickly things happened," recalled Maj. James Kean, an ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.

SAIGON, Vietnam — Russian-built Vietnamese air force planes and helicopters zoomed overhead, ambassadors and bureaucrats ...

Scholars, activists, and the public still argue about the Vietnam War, including over American motivations to intervene, the ...

April 30, 1975, for so many of us, is not just a date on the calendar,” one attendee said. “It is a date that changed our ...

In the fall of 1963 American efforts to build a democratic firewall against Communism in South Vietnam were failing. The country's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, ran the nation like a fiefdom.

armed and equipped by China for the conquest of the American-backed “South” Vietnam half a century ago. In the convoluted history of the country and the region, the Communist Vietnamese drove the ...