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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Bertin Huynh

Fifty years since the sky fell: how the Vietnam war changed Australia

Nguyen family photos
Nguyen family photos from just after their arrival in Australia. Thi Xa Nguyen fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975 and came to Australia by boat. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

“It’s like the world collapsed,” says Thi Xa Nguyen, looking back 50 years to the fall of Saigon.

She was living in the coastal town of Vũng Tàu where the soldiers of the southern Army of the Republic of Vietnam had retreated.

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