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    The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam...
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    by asking "How could any effort against Saigon, especially downtown Saigon, be a diversion?" Although Saigon was the focal point of the offensive, the...
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    Vietnamese Americans according to the 2010 Census, sorted by number. Growing Up American Little Saigon Lists of U.S. cities with large ethnic population...
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    Củ Chi tunnels (category Saigon in the Vietnam War)
    connecting tunnels located in the Củ Chi District of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie...
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    Blinken rejected the comparison to Saigon, stating on an ABC's This Week interview that "this is manifestly not Saigon. We went into Afghanistan 20 years...
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    Operation Chopper (Vietnam) (category Saigon in the Vietnam War)
    the Vietnam War. On 11 December 1961, the USS Core (T-AKV-41) docked in Saigon with 32 U.S. Army Piasecki H-21 helicopters and 400 crewmen of the 8th Transportation...
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    the country was re-unified in 1976 as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Saigon – Gia Định, South Vietnam's former capital, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City...
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  • The Lover (1992 film) (category Films set in Saigon)
    the Mekong River. After some awkward conversation, she accepts a lift to Saigon in his chauffeur-driven limousine. In voice-over at the beginning of the...
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    immediately and fighting continued until the 1975 spring offensive and fall of Saigon to the PAVN, marking the war's end. North and South Vietnam were reunified...
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    Liu was cast in the lead. While in line to audition for the musical Miss Saigon in 1990, she told The New York Times, "There aren't many Asian roles, and...
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    Saigon lost contact with the aircraft, they made an appeal for information to both Hong Kong and Taipei ACC which produced negative results. Saigon then...
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    Horizontale à Saïgon (Prostitution une Horizontale à Saigon Indochine prostituée cochinchine Vietnam) (photograph) (in French). Saigon: Collection Phénix...
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    capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon). Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established...
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    government of South Vietnam; with equal persistence, the government in Saigon refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the NLF. Harriman resolved this...
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    Khánh began his education in Cambodia and when he grew up, he moved to Saigon to study at an elite French school, boarding with wealthy relatives. In...
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    This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances. Eleven shows currently running on Broadway have at...
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  • The Deer Hunter (category Films set in Saigon)
    until they join refugees and a South Vietnamese Army convoy fleeing to Saigon. There, Nick is treated at a U.S. military hospital. Once released, Nick...
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  • is a pilates instructor who immigrated from Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon. Lannette 50 Lannette is an account manager. Rebecca 48 Rebecca is a fitness...
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    company's president and CEO. Among the acts signed to Third Stone were Saigon Kick and Nona Gaye. That same year, Douglas had another successful starring...
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    coerce and intimidate rural peasants. Peer De Silva, former head of the Saigon department of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), wrote that from as...
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    Starting in 1948, he became an official employee at the Saigon Central Post Office, sorting letters into boxes. Later, Ngộ would take on other roles...
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  • Elvis Presley's "Burning Love." Frank has described Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon" as a song of interest because "it explains things [the situations of the...
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    lived on the island hammered howitzer shell casings into bells. While in Saigon, Steinbeck participated in Michael Rubbo's 1970 documentary film Sad Song...
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  • Echo Park (the neighborhoods around the Toretto house), as well as Little Saigon (where Tran destroys the Eclipse) and the San Bernardino International Airport...
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    1965 ... [Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.], an old friend serving as Ambassador to Saigon, had asked me to visit Vietnam as his consultant. I toured Vietnam first...
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  • ship Orage, which was sailing to Martinique and Papeete. He became some sort of reporter, writing a ship's newsletter and airing music and interviews...
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  • executive officer Nguyen Tai, North Vietnamese spy, counterespionage officer in Saigon Lo Khac Tam, North Vietnamese Army leader Pham Duy Tat, ARVN army general...
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    down its coast to the Malay peninsula. In May 1945, Bose would fly out of Saigon on an overloaded Japanese plane, headed for Taiwan, which crash-landed and...
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  • Kong: Skull Island (category Films set in Saigon)
    investigative photojournalist. Larson stated her character has her "own sort of motive" for joining the expedition: "That's the interesting thing about...
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    tiny elite in Cambodia. He and the 21 other selected students sailed from Saigon aboard the SS Jamaïque, stopping at Singapore, Colombo, and Djibouti en...
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