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Tran, Nga Van
Vietnamese language interview with Tran Van Nga, who was born on January 10, 1935. He was a major for the South Vietnamese Army and later immigrated to the United States under the Humanitarian Operation or Operation New Life. He was trained and…
Nguyen,Van Toan (Andrew)
Nguyen Van Toan recalls his childhood in North Vietnam and his family moving to South Vietnam after the 1954 partition of the country. He was conscripted into the army at the age of twenty while he was in college. He lost both of his legs in a land…
Tran, Ngoc Hue
Hue Ngoc Tran, nicknamed “Harry” by fellow officers, is a former lieutenant colonel with the 1st Infantry Division Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He discusses the battles he was involved in, including the Tet Offensive of 1968. He later received…
Le, Minh Dao
Vietnamese language interview with Le Minh Dao, who was a South Vietnamese Army general who fought the last battle before the Fall of Saigon.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were conducted by…
Vu, Loc
Vietnamese language interview with Vu Loc, Director of the Viet Museum in San Jose, previously a colonel in the Army of South Vietnam (ARVN) and a refugee.
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. Interviews were…
Nguyen, Tho V. (Thomas)
Thomas Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. He was fifteen years old when South Vietnam fell. After the war, his family moved to a rural area to cultivate farmland that was then confiscated and made into a rubber tree plantation under the…
Quach, Tien
Quach Tien was born in Saigon, Vietnam and left the country when he was three years old. He recalls the discrimination the family faced because his father had served in the ARVN (Army Republic of Vietnam). He became a US citizen in the late 1980s and…
Trường, Quách Vĩnh
Vietnamese language interview with former South Vietnamese soldier, Trường Vĩnh Quách, who talks about an incident where, in an effort to save his fellow soldiers from a grenade blast, he lost an arm and a leg.
This interview is part of the…
This interview is part of the…
Vu, Phan
Phan Vu was born in April of 1933. As a young adult, he studied philosophy in Saigon, and until 1966 he served in the South Vietnamese Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant. He then became a high school French teacher. After the Fall of Saigon in…
Rosenblatt, Lionel
Lionel Rosenblatt discusses his experiences as a former foreign service officer with the CORDS program in Vietnam, whose goal was to gain support from the rural population for the government of South Vietnam. He organized a way to evacuate by air…