Forty years after the end of the Vietnam war a collection of 58 photographs taken by the AP is being exhibited for the first time in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.

The exhibition marks a homecoming that officials say is historic and an emblem of changing times.

AP's Saigon bureau won six Pulitzer Prizes for its Vietnam coverage, including four for photography.

All four are on display among the works by 21 photographers whose pictures are part of the news cooperative's archive of thousands of wartime photographs.

Among them is Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut's 1972 photograph of a screaming 9-year-old girl, after an aerial napalm attack burned the clothes off her body.

It is known as "Napalm Girl," and earned Ut a 1973 Pulitzer and celebrity status in Vietnam.

Major celebrations in Vietnam marked the recent 40th anniversary of defeating the Americans on April 30, 1975, when northern communist forces seized control of US-backed South Vietnam, ending the war.

AP TELEVISION

Hanoi - 11 June 2015

1. Various of entrance of Hanoi's Exhibition Hall

2. Various of people looking at photographs on display

3. Various of AP President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gary Pruitt speaking at podium

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Pruitt, AP President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO):

"These photos are some of the most iconic of the Vietnam war. AP won 4 photographic Pulitzer Prizes for its Vietnam coverage - those photos are part of this exhibit. These are 58 photos from the Vietnam era and war that shook the world, that were influential throughout the world. And for the first time, we can bring them comprehensively to the people of Vietnam, to the people who were experiencing this war first hand. And we're pleased that we get to bring them to the people of Hanoi and that we will donate them to the history museum here in Vietnam for their permanent display. And we feel that is appropriate."

5. Representative of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs speaking at podium

6. Guest looking at "Napalm girl", a photograph of 9-year-old girl running after being burnt by napalm bomb, taken by Nick Ut

7. Close of "Napalm girl"

8. AP photographer Nick Ut standing and reading

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Ut, AP war photographer:

"Oh my god, I'm so excited. It's unbelievable. You know my dream is to show the photo in Hanoi. I want people to see my picture. Because this picture was shot in South Vietnam. I think during the war, everyone knows this picture but some in Hanoi, not many people know it yet. Now they know the photographer and the picture."

10. Close of Horst Faas' photograph of South Vietnamese army troops crossing river

11. Various of people looking at photographs

12. Pruitt shaking hands with director of Vietnam army history museum

13. Pruitt shakes hands with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang

14. Wide of meeting between Sang and Pruitt

15. Close of Sang

16. Pruitt and AP Hanoi reporter Tran Van Minh

17. Sang, Vietnamese officials and AP staff posing for photograph

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FILE: Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam - April 1975

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1. Various of US military helicopter evacuation from roof of embassy

UPSOUND: (English) "Saigon, April the 30th, eight o'clock. The last American helicopter on the roof of the American embassy prepares to life off the last of the evacuees, fleeing before the advancing Communist armies."

2. Various of people running to board helicopters at US Embassy

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Ho Chi Minh City - 30 April 2015

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3. Tilt from high building to former Associated Press Vietnam war correspondent Peter Arnett

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Arnett, former AP Vietnam war correspondent:

"I stayed in Saigon with a few other reporters as the Communists were making the final push. And when they did indeed come into the city, and I saw the Russian trucks carrying all these young North Vietnamese soldiers, the tanks coming through the city streets, it was a tremendous shock, because I'd been here for 13 years. I'd seen America invest billions into Saigon and the country itself. 58,000 young Americans had died. It was inconceivable to me that sort of a surrender, the city was surrendered, basically without a shot being fired, and the government had turned it from being a Western outpost against the Communists to being just another part of a larger Communist empire. It was sort of shocking."

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FILE: Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam - April 1975

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5. Various of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong tanks and troops moving through streets

UPSOUND: (English) "And then shortly after midday, came the climax of thirty years of fighting, the first North Vietnamese troops entered the city, packed into trucks that flew the red and blue flag of the Communist Provisional Revolutionary Government, the PRG."

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Ho Chi Minh City - 30 April 2015

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Arnett, former AP Vietnam war correspondent:

"We were in the middle of the most intensive actions. So there was very dramatic print and photo coverages, remarkable in its, basically remarkable in its quality and quantity and it's become a landmark for journalism ever since. The photographic collections and the collections of print stories are a really important contribution to modern journalism."

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FILE: Newport Bridge, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam - April 1975

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7. Wide of soldier carrying wounded comrade

8. Soldier carrying wounded child away from fighting

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Ho Chi Minh City - 30 April 2015

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9. AP's Vietnam war correspondent Edith Lederer sitting with friends

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Edith Lederer, former AP Vietnam war correspondent:

"The journalists who covered the Vietnam war in retrospect were incredibly lucky, because the US military gave them total access to all the battlefields, every place that action was going on. And all you really needed to do was to go down to the helicopter landing site and if there was a seat on a chopper, you could get on and go to any base, you could stay as long as you wanted and you could come back when you wanted, and if you wanted to stay for five hours, 10 hours, two weeks, three weeks. That was fantastic."

11. Lederer among friends

STORYLINE

Four decades since the end of the Vietnam War, some of AP's former war correspondents were back in Ho Chi Minh City - formerly Saigon - to mark the anniversary.

New Zealand-born Peter Arnett was reporting for the Associated Press at the time Saigon fell to Communist troops, having spent 13 years in South Vietnam.

He stayed in the country for another three weeks after the end of the war.

The AP's first female war correspondent, the American journalist Edith Lederer, was sent to Saigon in 1972 to cover the war.

Lederer is now working as AP's chief correspondent at the United Nations.

The fall of Saigon was the official end to the Vietnam War and the US's decade-long involvement in southeast Asia.

Some 58,000 Americans were killed in the war along with up to 250,000 South Vietnamese allies and an estimated three million communist fighters and civilians.

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US President Donald Trump met on Friday with seven US military veterans who served in the Vietnam War. They met in Danang, Vietnam, where the President is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Trump also signed a proclamation marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war.

US POOL

Danang, Vietnam - 10 November, 2017

1. President Trump walks up to microphone

2. SOUNDBITE (English) US President Donald Trump

"When you speak of honors, one of my great honors is to present the people standing right behind me. The great, great warriors and veterans of the Vietnam War. Our veterans are national treasure and I thank them all for their service, sacrifice and and patriotism."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) William Reynolds, Vietnam War Veteran

"It's an honor to be here. My family is so proud. My wife loves you. She does. We all love you. All of the veterans that I represent in my community asked me to say to you, keep doing what you're doing. We need to win. We need to make America great again. And we definitely think you are on the right track. It's an honor to meet you, sir."

Trump: "We will keep it doing and we will get it done."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Morgan, Vietnam War Veteran

"Mr. President, from my heart, thank you for your support of the military. And it's an honor to be here as one of seven Vietnam veterans representing the 58,000 heroes who never made it home. Thank you so much."

Trump: "Thank you so much."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) US President Donald Trump: "Well I just want to thank everybody. These are special, special people. And just in speaking to them before I came up, they were so warm and so loving of our country, I said hey, would you like to say a few words. And they said them better than anyone can say them. They're brave, they're strong, they're great patriots. And we just want to thank you and all of the thousands and thousands that served with you and in all of the other wars. One of the things I'm so happy with is what we're doing with the whole Veterans Administration. It is a whole different ballgame. And I'm going to sign a proclamation and I'll sign it with one pen but we're going to make sure we have seven pens and we're going to get you each one. But it's an important proclamation and we'll do it right now. Thank you all, you have done a fantastic job."

4. Trump sits down, reads proclamation commerating 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war, signs

US President Donald Trump met on Friday with seven US military veterans who served in the Vietnam War. They met in Danang, Vietnam, where the President is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Trump also signed a proclamation marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war.

US POOL

Danang, Vietnam - 10 November, 2017

1. SOUNDBITE (English) US President Donald Trump

"When you speak of honors, one of my great honors is to present the people standing right behind me. The great, great warriors and veterans of the Vietnam War. Our veterans are national treasure and I thank them all for their service, sacrifice and and patriotism."

2. SOUNDBITE (English) William Reynolds, Vietnam War Veteran

"It's an honor to be here. My family is so proud. My wife loves you. She does. We all love you. All of the veterans that I represent in my community asked me to say to you, keep doing what you're doing. We need to win. We need to make America great again. And we definitely think you are on the right track. It's an honor to meet you, sir."

Trump: "We will keep it doing and we will get it done."

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Morgan, Vietnam War Veteran

"Mr. President, from my heart, thank you for your support of the military. And it's an honor to be here as one of seven Vietnam veterans representing the 58,000 heroes who never made it home. Thank you so much."

Trump: "Thank you so much."

5. Trump reads proclamation commerating 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war, signs

US President Donald Trump met on Friday with seven US military veterans who served in the Vietnam War.

They met in Danang, Vietnam, where the President is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Trump also signed a proclamation marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.

US POOL

Danang, Vietnam - 10 November 2017

1. SOUNDBITE (English) William Reynolds, Vietnam War Veteran:

"We all love you. All of the veterans that I represent in my community asked me to say to you, keep doing what you're doing. We need to win. We need to make America great again. And we definitely think you are on the right track. It's an honor to meet you, sir."

Trump: "We will keep it doing and we will get it done."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Morgan, Vietnam War Veteran:

"Mr. President, from my heart, thank you for your support of the military. And it's an honor to be here as one of seven Vietnam veterans representing the 58,000 heroes who never made it home. Thank you so much."

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"Well I just want to thank everybody. These are special, special people. And just in speaking to them before I came up, they were so warm and so loving of our country, I said hey, would you like to say a few words. And they said them better than anybody can say them. They're brave, they're strong, they're great patriots. And we just want to thank you and all of the thousands and thousands that served with you and in all of the other wars. One of the things I'm so happy with is what we're doing with the whole Veterans Administration. It is a whole different ballgame. And I'm going to sign a proclamation and I'll sign it with one pen but we're going to make sure we have seven pens and we're going to get you each one. But it's an important proclamation and we'll do it right now. Thank you all, you have done a fantastic job. I appreciate it. Thank you very much."

4. Trump sits down, reads proclamation commemorating 50th anniversary of the Vietnam war, signs