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[2] [3] Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member. [2] South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ stated that Lém was "a very high ranking" political official, but had not been a member of the Viet Cong military. [4] The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press ...
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
The son of Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Tuân, [1] [2] Huan Nguyen was born in 1958 or 1959 in Huế, South Vietnam.During the Tet Offensive of 1968, Nguyen's parents and six siblings were killed at their Saigon-area home by alleged Viet Cong guerrillas.
Nguyen Ngoc was the son of a post officer worker south of Danang. Ngoc met and was deeply impressed by North Vietnamese political leader Lê Duẩn in 1951. [1] Ngoc joined the Viet Cong as a political officer writing poems and slogans in support of their cause. His siblings worked as teachers in schools in South Vietnam. [2] [1]
Later, the Vietnamese began to write their own songs as well. It is thought that the modern Vietnamese song originated from one of these early composers, Nguyen Van Tuyen, a native student of Huế at the Philharmonic Society of Saigon, who first performed his songs there in 1937. By 1938, he was also touring in Hanoi and other cities with ...
He defeated Viet Cong forces in the Battle of An Lộc. Ngo Lý Tin, Vietnamese general and scholar [4] Ngô Quang Trưởng, Republic of Vietnam lieutenant general. He recaptured Huế from Northern communist forces in 1968 Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Republic of Vietnam general. He defended Saigon against Viet Cong forces in the Tet ...
On Loan and his photograph, Adams wrote in Time in 1998: Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world.
The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive ...