The Vietnam War was one of the Cold War’s most drawn-out conflicts – but even its end was traumatic, as communist forces raided the city of Saigon in 1975.
USS Midway was one of the biggest and most heavily built aircraft carriers ever put to sea, a ship that tested rockets, ...
For two days, April 29 and 30, 1975, the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Midway was in chaos. As the huge ship sat in the water near the shores of South Vietnam, a steady stream of helicopters was ...
KPBS presents a special on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Sàigòn. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Sàigòn and the end of the Vietnam War. KPBS presents a special featuring the ...
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of ...