Su Van Nguyen fought the communists as an officer in the South Vietnamese army. He endured seven years of torture, hard labor and indoctrination in a communist reeducation camp, he says, before ...

The flag, which has three red stripes on a field of gold, was the symbol of the former Republic of Vietnam, from which many fled for the U.S. after the Vietnam War.

Most non-American observers of the Vietnamese scene in 1954 considered that South Vietnam was doomed. Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem appeared to be a creation of the U.S., pulled out of the hat at the very ...

Benjamin Vu’s iconic photo of the flag was captured at a community gathering in 2011 when more than 1,000 commemorated the fall of Saigon, signifying the end of the Vietnam War.

The U.S. helped establish and back South Vietnam, a pro-Western democratic republic that fought communist North Vietnam. American ground troops formally joined the war to defend the south in 1965.

My Folkloristic History of the Việt Nam War: A Non-communist Experience. Long S. Le. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013), pp. 1-23 ... (2006) War stories: ...

News; We the People: The reasoning behind the Vietnam War was not as simple as stopping the spread of communism Aug. 29, 2021 Updated Fri., Sept. 10, 2021 at 11:17 p.m.

After communist North Vietnam defeated the U.S.-backed South in 1975, scores of South Vietnamese refugees resettled in America. In Vietnam, the North's red flag replaced their yellow one.

The flag of the Republic of Vietnam now flies alongside the Stars and Stripes at San Jose city hall after a somber ceremony to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.

As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world’s leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam. The City Council voted ...