The event aboard the USS Midway commemorated the anniversary of Operation Frequent Wind rescues and the fall of Saigon that ...

He was just 17 when he joined the Marine Corps in 1943, hoping to help free his older brother, a prisoner of war ... on the USS Bon Homme Richard, an aircraft carrier off the coast of Vietnam.

NEW YORK (AP) — Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the ... And rock and folk music helped forge a soundtrack of easy melodies and memorable, resonant phrases for an ...

Her journey through the past begins in her hometown: Saigon, Vietnam — a city on the brink of collapse in April 1975. Born into a deadly war ... lead her aboard the USS Midway during what ...

Thousands of Vietnam War veterans and Vietnamese-Americans flooded the USS Midway’s flight deck Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the war’s end — and the daring rescues that came with it.

April 30th, 1975, marks the official end of the nearly two-decade-long Vietnam War. The Vietnam War left a lasting impact on Vietnam and the United States, ...

American involvement in the Vietnam War came to an end when troops from communist ... Security Guards toward the waiting deck of the USS Okinawa. Its departure marked the final mission of the ...