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People Archives:Ho Chi Minh

South Vietnamese citizens try to board a bus out of Saigon in the frenzied last days before the capital fell. A new book details the efforts of an American banker to help some of his Vietnamese colleagues escape. Book cover, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians.

Book Review: Getting Out of Saigon / How a 27-Year-Old American Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

by Jon Guttman6/29/20234/26/2024

Ralph White had a harrowing adventure to save his Vietnamese colleagues.

Photo of Marine commando forces of the French Expeditionary Corps wading ashore from a landing craft, in the Annam region in central Vietnam, as war operations against the Communist Viet Minh continue, on July 27, 1950.

How France’s “Black Tigers” Used WWII Resistance Tactics in Vietnam

by Andrew McGregor5/31/20239/11/2023

Read a Letter From Ho Chi Minh to U.S. President Truman Before the Vietnam War Began

by Ho Chi Minh2/3/20232/3/2023
A narrow gap between the protestors and the riot police during a demonstration against the Vietnam War in Washington DC, 21st May 1972. 173 demonstrators were later arrested during a violent confrontation with the police. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

When Did the US Lose the Vietnam War? Here Are Some Dates

by Jerry D. Morelock11/17/20224/26/2024

North Vietnam Tried to Exploit American Racism with POWs. It Didn’t Work

by Daniel Ramos5/13/20224/25/2024

Were We Right to Be Afraid of China During the Vietnam War?

by Dr. Erik Villard4/27/20225/1/2022

Combat Troops in Vietnam Depended On These Support Units

by Jon Guttman4/14/20224/14/2022

How Nixon’s Operation Linebacker Countered North Vietnam’s All-Out Bid to Conquer the South

by Carl O. Schuster4/5/20225/23/2022

How the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive Tested Nixon’s War Strategy

by James H. Willbanks3/31/20229/16/2022

Red Tape: Inside the Viet Cong’s Revolutionary Bureaucracy

by Virginia Morris7/6/20217/6/2021

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