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‘It Felt Like You Were Reborn’: Vietnamese Australians on Their Escape From Communism

Forty-six years ago, on April 30, 1975, the tanks of the Northern Vietnamese army rolled into Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Min City), the capital of South Vietnam. A soldier jumped from the tank and ran into the presidential palace to raise the Viet Cong flag on the balcony of the fourth floor. The…


One Man’s Escape From Communist Vietnam

There’s a different story for every “boat person” who escaped communist Vietnam. For one man, Binh Tran, his journey involved a boat he built with some friends. As the last Americans pulled out of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army and the south’s communist Viet Cong forces captured Saigon, the…