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Nguyễn, Thị Hạnh Nhơn
Nguyen Thi Hanh Nhon was born in 1927 in Hue, Vietnam. Her father was a high-ranking official under Emperor Bao Dai. Under the French regime, she served in the corps of females assistants, which later became the corps of female soldiers under the…
Nguyen, Nam Van
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyen Van Nam, who rose to the rank of Colonel in the South Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. He was forced to flee Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon and resettled in Texas, where he worked in a number of…
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…
Nguyen, Tuan Anh Cong
Vietnamese language interview with Nguyen Cong Anh Tuan.
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…
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…
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…
Baza, Raymond T.
Raymond T. Baza recounts his experiences processing the first group of 7,000 refugees from Vietnam, about five or six hundred "Operation Baby Lift" infants, to a camp in Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States which…
Whitenbach-Santos, Richard
Dr. Richard Whitenbach Santos was a captain in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and served as Special Assistant to the commander of Naval Forces during Operation New Life in Guam, an unincorporated and organized territory of the United…
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…
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…
Tran, Dinh Tru
Tru Dinh Tran was a Navy commander for the Republic of Vietnam. He recalls his experiences as an officer, taking refuge in Guam after the Fall of Saigon, and deciding to return to his family in Vietnam where he was imprisoned in a reeducation camp…