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World Service,29 Apr 2010,10 mins

Fall of Saigon

Witness History

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The Vietnam War came to an end in April 1975 with the fall of the southern capital, Saigon. Two witnesses, one from North Vietnam, the other from the South, tell their very different stories of those days. (Photo: A 30 April 1975 photo shows a line of captured US-backed South Vietnamese Army soldiers, escorted by Vietnamese communist soldiers, as they walk down a Saigon street after the city fell into the hands of the communist troops on the same day.) (Credit AFP/Getty Images)

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