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‘Still an open wound’: damning docuseries revisits Vietnam war 50 years on

Netflix series Turning Point: The Vietnam War goes back to retrace a devastating history from multiple perspectives

This Wednesday, 30 April, marks a full half century since the fall of Saigon. The ta…

The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson | Norman Solomon

The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflict

The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy …

10 days ago

‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrender

The day that Saigon fell, Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent, could only hear shoutin…

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Lifesavers who swooped down from Saigon's wartorn skies: 50 years ago, the Mail launched an audacious rescue mission to save 100 children from a Vietnamese orphanage. ROBERT HARDMAN tracked them down and heard their humbling and poignant stories

They were the most innocent, most vulnerable victims of a conflict every bit as savage as the Second World War - but lasted three times longer.

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