About two dozen Vietnam veterans joined Irvine dignitaries and others Tuesday at Hangar 297 at the Great Park, the future home of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, to commemorate the 50th ...

Dr. Kenneth Quinn is President Emeritus of the World Food Prize, having served as American ambassador to Cambodia from 1996 to 1999. During the Vietnam War, he became the only civilian to receive the ...

LAWSUIT, WHICH IS STILL ACTIVE. TODAY MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM AFTER THE FALL OF SAIGON. THE CITY, ONCE THE CAPITAL OF SOUTH VIETNAM, IS NOW HO CHI MINH CITY. THE TAKEOVER ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Hope turned into heartbreak 50 years ago this month, when a cargo plane loaded with Vietnamese orphans bound for America crashed in a rice field. Devaki Murch was on that plane. Now ...

50 YEARS LATER. THE PAN AM 747 JET FOR BONNIE DUNCAN. WHAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 1975 IS MORE THAN JUST A BLACK AND WHITE MEMORY. 31 OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE ORPHANS FLOWN IN LAST NIGHT. THE REGISTERED ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Nuns and nurses, pilots and volunteers. They’re the heroes who pulled off a massive evacuation effort 50 years ago, airlifting thousands of Vietnamese orphans out of the war zone in ...

The evacuation of Saigon marked the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War, where refugees boarded boats or helicopters in search of a new life.

Pilot John Morgan flew one of the helicopters evacuating people out of Saigon. When Iowa native John Morgan received orders to assist with the Vietnam War, it was a “tremendous surprise.” President ...

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the ...

Editor's note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Military Times is publishing a series of stories commemorating the history of the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Gerry Berry grew up in Des Moines, and after graduating high school in 1963, he went on to study at Simpson College. "I was captain of the football team, had a great time down there ...