April 30, 2025 will mark 50 years since the fall of Saigon in South Vietnam. Just seven days later, a plane carrying 70 refugees landed at Fort Chafee in Fort Smith. By the end of 1975, more than 50,000 refugees were settled in Fort Chaffee. One of those refugees was 1-year-old Ngoc Nguyen, who revisited the area after recently discovering her roots in Arkansas.
Remembering the Fort Chaffee Indochinese Resettlement
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Pebley Historical and Cultural Center Collection
