Fifty years ago, the North Vietnamese military toppled the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War and sparking a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees to ...

The fall of Saigon 50 years ago prompted a mass exodus of Vietnamese over the next months and years. Many were evacuated by the United States military and brought to America to resettle.

After Saigon fell, Florida became one of four states to establish camps for the 133,000 Vietnamese refugees who fled to the U.S. More than 10,000 were processed at the camp at Eglin Air Force Base ...

More than 120,000 people fled Vietnam after the North Vietnamese captured Saigon on April 30, 1975. This chaotic evacuation has been captured in iconic photos, documentary films and oral histories.

The American military was gone, save for a tiny contingent of 50 Marines, with the South Vietnam capital of Saigon surrounded by both encroaching Viet Cong rebels and the North Vietnamese Army.

The fall of Saigon marked the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Fifty years later, metro Denver’s Vietnamese community looks back on the event’s legacy and charts its future.

Vietnamese Refugees arrive at Camp Pendleton in 1975. (San Diego History Center) They may have a different relationship with the history, and with the fall of Saigon.

After the fall of Saigon, about 10,000 Vietnamese refugees were resettled in Denver to build new lives, according to History Colorado. Initially, there were no established Vietnamese enclaves, as ...