Juan José Valdez, a Marine Corps veteran, remembers Vietnam when he hears the news about the United States' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. There he was in April 1975, on the roof of the U.S.

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly ...

The fall of Saigon didn’t happen in a day, although the iconic photos of Huey helicopters rescuing people from the city’s rooftops have become symbolic of the tumultuous evacuation, 50 years ago ...

A few days after the United States evacuated American civilians and at-risk Vietnamese from Saigon on April 30, 1975, Maxwell Taylor, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lamented that “the ...

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...

How often has television news likened the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to the 1975 fall of Saigon? The timeline below shows total mentions of Saigon across Al Jazeera, BBC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC ...

Americans watched the sudden fall of Kabul on television, bringing back memories of an earlier hasty withdrawal in 1975 in Saigon. (ABC News) It is hard to overestimate the sacrifice of hundreds of ...

The abrupt U.S. defeat in the Afghan war has invited parallels with the fall of Saigon in 1975. That event, too, included televised images of panicked crowds desperately seeking to flee the country, ...