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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…
Võ, Văn Bằng
Vo Van Bang was born in the city of Hue, Thua Thien, Vietnam, where he later served as council member. He was present during the early stages of the Tet Offensive of 1968. He recalls hearing gun shots from the North Vietnamese Army and fleeing to…
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…
Truong, Nhu Phung
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…
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…
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…
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…
Turner, Robert Foster
University of Virginia School of Law professor, Dr. Robert Turner, discusses the United States involvement in Vietnam in the geopolitical context of international communist movements, Vietnamese nationalism, French colonialism in Indochina and…
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…
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…
Ut, Huynh Cong (Nick)
Huỳnh Công Út, known as Nick Ut, recounts his experiences as a photojournalist and his Pulitzer-prize-winning photo, that of the napalm bombing of the village of Trang Bang, where he photographed a nine-year-old unclothed and badly burned Kim Phuc…