A fireworks display was held in Ho Chi Minh City to mark the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces.

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to revel in a massive military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.

Fifty years ago today, the fall of Saigon on April 30th, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam War. Most Americans remember it as one of US history's longest and most unpopular conflicts. But in Vietnam,