‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war
- Posted on April 29, 2025
- By The Guardian
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‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrender