Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City, 2018

33 photos of what used to be South Vietnam's presidential palace in Saigon.

Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City, 13 March 2018 2. The palace was completed as late as 1966. It replaced a palace which had been bombed in 1962 by two dissident South Vietnamese pilots. The present palace was bombed by a single pilot in 1975 shortly before Communist tanks burst into the palace grounds, bringing the Vietnam War to an end.

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Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City, 13 March 2018 2. The palace was completed as late as 1966. It replaced a palace which had been bombed in 1962 by two dissident South Vietnamese pilots. The present palace was bombed by a single pilot in 1975 shortly before Communist tanks burst into the palace grounds, bringing the Vietnam War to an end.