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The tank crew that stormed Saigon's presidential palace / 43NP3G2
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When they crashed through the gates of Saigon's presidential palace to end Vietnam's war, the young crew of communist Tank 390 shaped the course of history -- but 50 years on they are modest about their role in a pivotal chapter of the Cold War.
"At that very moment, I considered the Independence Palace just another station of the enemy, a position that we must eliminate," Nguyen Van Tap told AFP amid the pomelo, kumquat and longan trees of his immaculately tended front yard in Hai Duong province. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES