--- title: See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now description: On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April 1975 canonical: https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-30T02:13:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:17.440Z article:section: History og:title: See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now og:description: On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April 1975 og:url: https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now twitter:description: On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April 1975 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Apr 30, 2015 2:13 AM UTC by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Apr 30, 2015 2:13 AM UTC _Read next:_ [_The Surprising Story of the Spy Who Worked for_ ](http://time.com/3836522/pham-xuan-an-1975/)[TIME](http://time.com/3836522/pham-xuan-an-1975/)  Rebel tanks are drawn up in front of the presidential palace in Saigon, on Nov. 3, 1963, during coup that brought the downfall and death of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. AP  A man takes a family photo in front of the former presidential palace of the former South Vietnam U.S.-backed regime in Ho Chi Minh City, on April 10, 2015. Hoang Dinh Nam—AFP/Getty Images  The body of a South Vietnamese captain is carried on an army tank surrounded by many soldiers and civilians in a funeral procession on Saigon's main street on Nov. 5, 1963. Horst Faas—AP  Heavy traffic in central Ho Chi Minh City during the morning rush hour on Nov 22, 2014. Sean Gallagher—National Geographic/Corbis  Newly landed U.S. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, on their way to reinforce the air base, as South Vietnamese Rangers battled guerrillas about three miles south, on April 10, 1965. Peter Arnett—AP  Students play football on the beach in Da Nang on Nov. 19, 2013. Chau Doan—LightRocket/Getty Images See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/"},"headline":"See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now","datePublished":"2015-04-30T02:13:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:17.440Z","description":"On the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, on April 30, 1975, TIME looks back at three scenes from the 1960s and how they look today","url":"https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/","keywords":["photography","Vietnam War"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3841170/vietnam-war-photos-forty-years/","name":"See 3 Amazing Pairings That Show Vietnam Then and Now"}}]}] ```