Fifty years ago, thousands of babies and young children were evacuated from the war zone in the final days of the Vietnam War ...

We saw hard-hitting displays that call out the past and present atrocities of Vietnam’s Communist regime and tributes to those who fought against it.

When the Vietnam War finally ended on April 30, 1975, it left behind a landscape scarred with environmental damage. Vast ...

The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

and national healing. Emilie Raymond is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Follow her curatorial ...

Join us in the celebration with a chance to win a National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions cruise to Antarctica for two! Ever dreamt of gliding on a Zodiac around enormous icebergs of the ...

John was born in Vietnam. He never knew his birth father, who was likely an American GI, or his Vietnamese mother. According ...

The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION Borboroglu worked quickly, assessing the condition of the colony and freeing one bird that was entangled in plastic, and began ...

Nguyễn opened Phở Thìn in the scarce years following the Vietnam War, hoping it would always enable him to feed his newborn son. A fiercely proud Hanoian from a family that has resided in ...

This triumph put an end to the prolonged and heroic resistance war against the US, marking one of the greatest feats in Vietnam’s thousand-year struggle for national construction and defence.

Military conscription in Australia had been abandoned in 1959 but was reintroduced in 1964 to support the war effort in Vietnam. Controversially, this call-up of 20-year-old men now included the ...