Fifty years ago today, the last American combat soldiers left Vietnam, and North Vietnam’s government released its remaining American prisoners of war.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-withdraws-from-vietnam

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That didn’t end the war, of course. The article says 80,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians died in 1974, which obviously doesn’t count North Vietnamese deaths.