A retired doctor and a retired naval officer who now call St. Louis home were there that day, not far from what is now Ho Chi ...

But in 1967, over a decade into the Vietnam War, he was drafted.At age 20, he left his home in the city’s Chinatown ...

For Vietnamese immigrant families who primarily fled from South Vietnam to the U.S. after the Vietnam War, this music offers a connection to their culture.

When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces 50 years ago this week, it prompted a mass ...

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

Two Marines from Massachusetts — among the last remaining soldiers in Saigon — recall the tense evacuation effort and how the ...

Mackintosh, the producer behind such mega-hits as "Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Miss Saigon, " keeps finding himself in the strange position of returning to former triumphs, stripping ...

"CBS News Sunday Morning" airs at 9 a.m. The fall of Saigon was on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam War lasted from 1954 to 1975. A Vero Beach man will be receiving national attention on April 27 for ...

Decades later, young guitarists are still cutting their teeth on the main riff from “Smoke on the Water.” At the same time, countless bands have covered “Highway Star” since its release.

The Viet Congs were shooting at a packed helicopter as it lifted off the Saigon Embassy in Saigon in the middle of the night April 1975. “They are shooting at us, shooting at us!” people screamed.

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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has said that polio transmission is still active in Nigeria, adding that all necessary measures were needed to stop the disease.