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English language interview with Kim Yen Vu.

The Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA) is a grassroots collection of interviews conducted and supported through The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation (VAHF) to provide oral history…

Nguyen Phan Thu Thao (Jacqueline) was born in Danang, Vietnam. Her family moved to Saigon, Vietnam and later fled the country by boat to Malaysian and then Philippine refugee camps. Her family immigrated separately to the United States--one of her…

Phạm Ngọc Luy was the captain of the Trường Xuân, a cargo ship that he piloted to rescue over 3,000 fleeing Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon. As the ship sank on May 2, 1975, they appealed to the Danish ship, the Clara Maersk, and…

Richard L. Armitage is a former American naval officer and Vietnamese language speaker who served three combat tours of duty during the Vietnam War. In this interview, he discusses one of his missions, which was to deny the enemy the use of important…

Chuck Meadows is a retired American Marine who was first deployed to Vietnam back in 1965. He details his training and his assignments while he was in Vietnam during the war and the multiple tours he participated in. He also describes what he saw and…