Latest "Saigon" stories

‘What’s happening now is worse’: Midway skipper who pushed choppers off deck in fall of Saigon

As the human misery unfolded, then-Capt. Larry Chambers, the first Black aircraft carrier skipper, risked his career to help save those Vietnamese who had helped the U.S.

By Howard Altman

20 months ago

This admiral's brown water strategy blasted the Viet Cong out of the Mekong Delta waters

Vice Adm. Elmo “Bud” Zumwalt realized he had to inject new vigor into waterborne operations and devise a more effective strategy to abandon search-and-destroy tactics.

By David Sears

5 years ago