
‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
The day that Saigon fell, Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent, could only hear shouting and commotion. It was 30 April 1975, and helicopters were frantically lifting personnel and civilians from the US embassy. Phuong, who had travelled down from the north, …