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The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic ...
Tiziano Terzani (Italian: [titˈtsjaːno terˈtsaːni]; 14 September 1938 – 28 July 2004) was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon to the hands of the Viet Cong and the fall of Phnom Penh at the hands of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s.
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Though Minh died before the Fall of Saigon in 1975, the People's Army was victorious. The North succeeded in uniting Vietnam in 1976, and Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Operation Frequent Wind was the final phase in the evacuation of American civilians and "at-risk" Vietnamese from Saigon, South Vietnam, before the takeover of the city by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in the Fall of Saigon.
Nguyen’s first book, ... tracing the fracture of her family from the fall of Saigon to their immigration to the U.S. from Vietnam to the poet’s complex whirlwind of a relationship with her ...
The 25 Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam (ISBN 978-0813190365) is a book by General Bruce Palmer Jr. about the Vietnam War, and was published in 1984.. The book is split into two parts, the first which follows chronologically the events leading to the fall of Saigon in 1975 and mentions Palmer's position in those events.
On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on Thursday, a group of Marines who were there that day returned to what is now Ho Chi Minh City for a memorial ceremony at the site of the old ...