Communist troops overrun the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.
In the chaotic frenzy of fleeing refugees and deadly enemy gunfire, U.S. Marines coordinate the evacuation of embassy personnel. As the last military helicopter clears the rooftops, the final chapter on America's struggle in a decade-long war comes to a close. The final days of South Vietnam's Saigon were chaotic, brutal, bloody and sad. Communist troops streamed down from the north, toppling cities like dominoes at the end of April. Twenty-five years to the day after the fall of Saigon, veterans and civilians alike remembered the end of the war that, more than any other, divided America.