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 ...

Fifty years ago, communist forces took over Saigon in a chaotic and tragic ending to what had become a lengthy and ...

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965, few Americans ...

This video is no longer available. Wednesday marks 50 years since North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. For decades, a ...

The Vietnam War lasted from 1955 to 1975, with America’s military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s being what many remember most. But it was actually part of a much larger unification struggle known ...

Project CHECO Southeast Asia Report No.160. Special Report: The Siege of Plei Me - 19-29 October 1965, F031100010279. Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive. 24 February 1966, Box 0001, Folder ...

Sixty years ago this week, an incident off the coast of North Vietnam set the U.S. on a path toward a costly and, ultimately, unsuccessful war. What some were calling the Second Indochina War is ...

This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. It is also the 30th anniversary of normalized relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, which made them partners in trade. With proposed tariffs now ...

He was a helicopter pilot they called “Combat Kelly,” and in the early years of the Vietnam War, Maj. Charles Kelly set the example for the daredevil flyers who would come to be called Army “Dustoff” ...

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Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

In the buzzing matrix of Hanoi’s old quarter sits Phở Thìn, one of 700-or-so pho restaurants that speckle this thousand-year-old city. Phở Thìn is practically outfitted with stainless steel tables, ...