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Presented by Opera Australia, Cameron Mackintosh’s Revival of MISS SAIGON reunites the creatives from the 2004 Touring Production, which reached Australia in 2007, to reincorporate elements of the 1989 West End original while shifting the focus to make a more powerful message than the central love story. 

The extensive history of the Sierra Madre, originally the USS LST-821.

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, parallels to Vietnam, Madalene Xuan-Trang Mielke shares her story

Despite immense obstacles, U.S. Air Force airmen were able to evacuate 124,000 U.S. personnel and refugees out of Kabul.

The air evacuation out of Afghanistan was, in a word, amazing. Despite immense obstacles, U.S. Air Force airmen were able to rise to the challenge and evacuate 124,000 U.S. personnel and refugees out of Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Seven Boeing Vertol CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters operated by the US Department of State Air Wing (DoSAW) have been abandoned in Afghanistan

The local veteran and military community continues to come to terms with the fall of Kabul.

Many have drawn parallels with America's withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975 - but is this fair?

USS Midway Museum A-7B Corsair II Returns from Restoration USS Midway Museum A-7B Corsair II Returns from Restoration On June 3rd, the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California took delivery of their freshly-restored LTV A-7B Corsair II. A crane carefully winched the now-pristine naval attack aircraft onto the flight deck of the retired aircraft carrier, USS Midway, the museum’s home. Over the past two years, museum personnel and volunteers lavished more than 2,000 hours of restoration lab...

Today marks the 46 th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, which signified the true end of the Vietnam War. Who could forget that famous picture of people queued up on a Saigon building (mistakenly thought to have been the US Embassy), getting on a UH-1 helicopter leaving Vietnam, as shown in this video: There were some other great pictures in that video, too. However, the real last helicopter flight out was that of a CH-46 (Callsign “Swift 22”). The video describes the helicopter evacuation ...