This April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On that day in 1975, North Vietnamese troops entered what was then called Saigon and declared victory.

Ron Emmons recommends the sites worth visiting to mark the occasion. The year 2025 is a big one for Vietnam, as April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War.

North Vietnamese forces adapted by cycling radar signals or employing decoy SAM sites, creating a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that tested the ingenuity of both sides in the war. But the American ...

With “Tour of Duty,” the Vietnam War finally came to prime time. The CBS series that premiered in 1987 showed actual combat and the young men who fought and died in it.

Vietnam’s war with the United States lasted for nearly 20 years, from November 1955 to April 1975, and resulted in the deaths of more than 58,000 Americans and many times that number of Vietnamese.

The Vietnam War was many things: ... More than a million Vietnamese fled on boats in the 1970s and early ’80s. ... Graves for the North’s martyrs offer one view of the war’s legacy.

The fall of Saigon 50 years ago — on April 30, 1975 — marked the end of the two-decade-long Vietnam War. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla troops captured the city to unify the country ...

An Army war correspondent in Vietnam (1970-71), Lund hid his service for 30 years but when the U.S. went to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, he wanted to lend a constructive voice.

April 30th marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, which concluded in 1975 with the fall of Saigon. Spanning nearly two decades, the war left over 3 million people dead and millions more ...

Opinion: The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. Its legacy continues to evolve. From their homes in B.C., Nelson’s war resisters hear echoes of an authoritarian past down south ...

It is commonly believed that the Vietnam War was waged only by the United States armed forces against the Communists of the ...

Wednesday, April 30, will mark 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. On that day, April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese forces ...