In the early morning of April 30, 1975, the only U.S. military service members who remained in Vietnam were several dozen Marines on the ground in Saigon. They were waiting to get out themselves. A ...

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 ...

As North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the fall of the southern capital city on April 30, 1975, effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. The evacuation of South Vietnamese allies and ...

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the ...

A North Vietnamese tank rolled through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon in 1975, signifying the fall of South Vietnam. 1975 File Photo / The Associated Press On April 30, 1975, American ...

For retired Rear Adm. Lawrence Chambers, Sunday’s marking of 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War was a red-letter day. “I have to tell you [that] ever since we scheduled this event years ago, my ...

April 1975 saw some significant changes coming in the Oneonta business climate. One company needed bigger quarters and moved from the town of Oneonta’s West End to near the town’s eastern border in ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Jim Thomas is a volunteer perambulator. Ordinarily, the Selectmen should perambulate — or in common English, walk the town boundaries — about once every five years as required by state ...

While praying in school is a thing of the past, there has been a general return to supermarket prayer. Shoppers are invoking favorite divinities as they attempt to exchange greenbacks for groceries in ...

In the chaos of the helicopter evacuation from Saigon in April 1975, Doan Hoàng Curtis' sister was somehow left behind. It ...