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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…

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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…

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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…

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Chris Phan was born in the Vinh Long province in Vietnam. His dad and uncles had been involved in the military or politics in South Vietnam, but after 1975, his family was forced to move to a rural area during the land reforms. He remembers that his…

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Lewis Sorley is an American intelligence analyst, lecturer and military historian who was deployed to Vietnam as an Army major in 1966. Based on his experiences and research, he wrote the book "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Vietnamese language interview with Truong Phung Nhu.

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…

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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…
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