Photo Special: Vietnam – The War Years
The Vietnam war ended with the fall of Saigon on April 30th, 1975 when communist North Vietnamese forces drove tanks through the former U.S.-backed capital of South Vietnam, smashing through the Presidential Palace gates.
The fall of Saigon marked the official end of the Vietnam War and the decade long U.S. campaign against communism in Southeast Asia.
The conflict claimed some 58,000 American lives and an estimated 3 million Vietnamese.
This huge gallery offers a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of U.S. involvement in the early 1960′s to the Fall of Saigon.
The pictures include some very iconic photographs including Napalm Girl by Huynh Cong Ut and Eddie Adams snap of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan killing Vietcong operative Nguyen Van Lem.
Posted on July 20, 2010 | Filed Under Life
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