The transition of Saigon from an idyllic paradise to a colonial city is captured in an exhibition of 19th century photos and paintings. A wharf on the Saigon River in 1896. Ben Nghe Canal in the 1860s ...
Twenty minutes. That’s how long Nho Trong Nguyen had to save his wife and son. The day was April 26, 1975 – four days before the fall of Saigon – and the South Vietnamese congressman had just hung up ...
In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly ...
NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese escaped their war-torn homeland following the collapse of South Vietnam and the fall of Saigon 50 years ago. Minh Duong left on a military vessel ...
People try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the ...
Scenes from the Taliban's capture of Kabul have evoked memories of the 1975 fall of the U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government in Saigon to communist North Vietnamese forces. The U.S., then and now, ...
Have a closer look of Saigon’s transformation. Saigon's 50-year long traffic jam Locals haunted by ghosts of Saigon cemetery Saigon of the 1960s: The tale of Lambros Members of a Facebook group page ...
It’s one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War. Hubert van Es’ snapshot shows a military helicopter perched atop the US Embassy in Saigon as Americans stream up a stairway, desperately boarding the ...
Storefronts line Sacramento's Stockton Boulevard in the vibrant Little Saigon district in 2010. Randall Benton Sacramento Bee file Little Saigon — located along the stretch of Stockton Boulevard, ...
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