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Nguyen, Kieu Chinh
Kieu Chinh describes her childhood living in Hanoi during WWII. When she was six, the Japanese bombed a hospital killing her mother and infant brother. She also recalls "the starvation" period during the Japanese occupation when her family moved to…
Le, Tay Cung
Cung Le explains how he escaped Vietnam as a child with his mother three days before the Fall of Saigon in 1975. They ended up in refugee camps in the Philippines and then Guam. They were resettled in San Jose, California, where discrimination and…
Arnett, Peter
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett discusses the debates on policy and strategy relating to the Vietnam War and his experiences reporting for the Associated Press in Saigon beginning in 1966. Arnett was one of the last western reporters in…
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…
Le, Luong
English and Vietnamese language interview with Luong Le, who describes life in Cam Ranh Airforce Base during the time that his father worked at a US base located there. He also describes what it was like postwar, including the discrimination of…
Nguyen, Phuoc Khoa
Vietnamese language interview with Phuoc Khoa Nguyen, a former senator of South Vietnam and refugee. He discusses his brother General Nguyen Khoa Nam, who along with General Le Van Hung, shot and killed themselves rather than surrendering or fleeing…
Phạm, Ngọc Luy
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…
Duong, Nguyet Anh
Duong Nguyet Anh left Vietnam with her family on a helicopter piloted by her brother on April 28, 1975, before the Fall of Saigon. They were transferred both on small boats and naval ships that took them to Subic Bay in the Philippines, then to the…
Nguyen, Phong (Robert)
Vietnamese language interview with Robert Phong Xuan Nguyen, who fled Vietnam in 1975 after the communist takeover of Saigon in 1975. He resettled in New Orleans and experienced Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Armitage, Richard L.
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…