Clinton's Vietnam visit

As President Clinton tells the Vietnamese that he hopes "a painful past can be redeemed in a peaceful and prosperous future," BBC News Online presents coverage of the president's historic visit plus archive reports from the war.

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The President reaches out to well-wishers

President Clinton recalls the intertwined histories of the US and Vietnam before an audience at the University of Hanoi.

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Vietnam has been transformed since the end of the war

The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones reports as Hanoi awaits the Clinton visit.

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Phan Thi Kim Phuc flees after a misdirected aerial napalm attack on a suspected Viet Cong hiding place

From the BBC's archive: Three reports by Brian Barron on the defeat of South Vietnam.

Here, he boards a helicopter gunship to see the terror of the refugees, March 1975.

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US helicopters in Vietnam

Last man out: "The Americans left their evacuation dangerously late."

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An American F-105 warplane is shot down

The fall of Saigon: the victorious North Vietnamese troops over-run the capital, a report from 30 April 1975.