ARVN troops celebrate the raising of the flag above the Imperial Citadel, signifying the liberation of Hue in the 1968 Tet Offensive.

Reinforcements are flown to Xuan Loc, site of the last set-piece battle between the North and South Vietnamese. There, the ARVN held off a numerically superior enemy for eleven days.

PAVN main battle tanks destroyed in the heart of Saigon, on April 30, 1975.

An ARVN tank lies disabled on April 30, 1975—a sign of the heavy fighting taking place up until the very end.

The ARVN Ranger monument is defaced following the fall of Saigon in 1975.

One of the many suicides on April 30, 1975, Lt. Colonel Nguyen Van Long shot himself in front of the Marine Division Memorial in Saigon.

ARVN troops and government officials await processing as they sit on the lawn of the South Vietnamese Presidential Palace on April 30, 1975.