However, North Vietnamese troops always bolstered the insurgency. The North had indeed won the war, not by guerrilla tactics, but by conventionally invading the South in 1975.

As the final part of their 1975 spring offensive, North Vietnamese forces seized control of South Vietnam’s capital city, Saigon, on April 30, 1975, signaling the end of the war—just over two ...

For the people of Vietnam, it would be their second Indochina war, coming eleven years after the Viet Minh’s defeat of the French colonial army and the creation of North and South Vietnam ...

April 30, 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon, ENDING the Vietnam conflict. The war was estimated to cost about $200 billion.

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach … ...

BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — April 30 will mark 50 years since the Fall of Saigon. It was the day South Vietnam’s capital city was captured, bringing an end to the Vietnam War. As we approach … ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a Vietnam divided into the communist North and U.S.-allied South, and the country’s top official told crowds the past decades had led to ...

Vietnamese flags fly on the Hien Luong Bridge, with a memorial in the distance, at the former border between North and South Vietnam, Quang Tri province, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) AP ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and ...

In 1960 America had 700 military “advisers” helping the pro-Western government of South Vietnam; by the end of 1964, that number had grown to 23,000. It was still too little. And so America ...