Two days before our July 4 celebration marked the 50th anniversary of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a single ...

In Saigon, April 1975, throngs of desperate Vietnamese people scaled the walls of the American embassy, hoping to get to any helicopter that would carry them away to safety. In Kabul, August 2021, ...

The Biden administration has repeatedly rejected comparing the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan to the chaotic conclusion of the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s. But retired Army Col. Jack ...

The period from the Paris Peace Agreement of January 1973, which marked the end of the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War, to the fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vietnamese at a camp in Guam seeking repatriation, September 1975. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 319, ...

Though separated by nearly half a century, the parallels between 1975 and today are eerie. In the White House, then as now, the new president in office for less than a year — his predecessor an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The memory of fleeing Vietnam after Saigon fell 50 years ago this week is never too far removed from the minds of the San Diegans who endured it. Some, like ...

On Jan. 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were signed by North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the United States and the Provisional Revolutionary Government to establish peace in Vietnam. Most United States ...

A few days before Thanksgiving every year, Hoang Ly settles into a chair at his home in Fredericksburg, Va., to write a thank-you email to Stephen Greene, the lanky American who helped his family ...