Women pose for photos outside the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8. The country will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on Wednesday. (Tan Qingju / Getty Images) ...

Hung Vu, 73, a former South Vietnamese army officer who left the country in 1975, poses with a photo of himself taken during the Vietnam War at his army surplus store in the Little Saigon neighborhood ...

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The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the decades-long Vietnam War. Images of overloaded evacuation helicopters remain among the iconic scenes of the 1970s. Fifty years later, the ...

Fifty years ago today, as the communist North Vietnamese army took control of Saigon, 16-year-old Chinh Nguyen and his family fled on boats from their homeland. The teenager and seven of his siblings ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Nguyen Cao Ky, former general and prime minister of South Vietnam, settled in with a glass of Bordeaux at dinner on a cobblestone terrace on the banks of the Saigon River, gazing ...

Red-and-gold banners snapped in the sticky morning breeze above a quarter-mile-long grandstand holding some 5,600 Vietnamese dignitaries and foreign guests. I occupied one of the cushioned seats, ...

Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar ...