HEWITT, TX (FOX 44) — Many veterans served in Vietnam before the fall of Saigon in 1975. One of them is Hewitt attorney Jon Ker, who served in Vietnam from January 1969 to January 1970. Here’s his ...
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) - On April 30, 1975, the Fall of Saigon effectively ended the Vietnam War. Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam, including 76-year-old Jerry Merrick of Dubuque. Then ...
Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans flooded the USS Midway’s flight deck Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the war’s end — and the daring rescues that came with it. The ...
Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop wargame offer insight?
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 ...
1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 explores artistic reactions to the Vietnam War created during the height of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. An unpopular and ...
It was “just some guy shooting somebody” Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams said at the time. But of course it wasn’t. When Saigon Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan casually put a bullet into the ...