Victorious North Vietnamese troops on tanks take up positions outside Independence Palace in Saigon on April 30, 1975, the day the South Vietnamese government surrendered, ending the Vietnam War.

April 30, 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon, ENDING the Vietnam conflict. The war was estimated to cost about $200 billion.

MCLEAN, Va. (7News) — April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On that day in 1975, the capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese.

The war dragged on for more than a decade and claimed 58,220 U.S. troops, and between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese troops. An estimated 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops ...

The historic anniversary commemorates the first act of the country's reunification on April 30, 1975 when Communist-run North Vietnam seized Saigon, the capital of the U.S.-backed South, renamed ...

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago on April 30, 1975, with the departure of the last American helicopter in Saigon and the arrival of North Vietnamese tanks in the city. The more than decade-long ...