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Phạm Văn Đổng (listen ⓘ; October 25, 1919 – November 26, 2008) was a South Vietnamese general. A staunch nationalist and anti-communist, he was considered an ally to several Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Việt Quốc) factions, multiple Đại Việt groups, Việt Nam Cách Mạng Đồng Minh Hội (Việt Cách) high-ranking members, Duy Dân and Hòa Hảo leaders.
September 28: the VC stopped a car carrying Father Hoang Ngoc Minh, a priest of Kontum parish, killing him and seriously wounding his nephew who was driving; September 30: Truong Van Dang, 67, from Long Tri, Long An Province was taken to a "people's tribunal." He was condemned to death for purchasing two hectares of rice land and ignoring VC ...
Pham Van Dong is the longest serving Prime Minister of Vietnam, over 30 years from 1955 to 1987 and a student and close associate of Ho Chi Minh. His nickname is To, this used to be his alias. He was also called Lam Ba Kiet when he worked as Deputy Director of the District Attorney's Office in Guilin (the director was Ho Hoc Lam).
Born in Phan Rang in the south central coast of Vietnam, Thieu joined the communist-dominated Việt Minh of Hồ Chí Minh in 1945 but quit after a year and joined the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) of the French-backed State of Vietnam. He gradually rose up the ranks and, in 1954, led a battalion in expelling the communists from his native ...
Dương Văn Minh (Vietnamese: [jɨəŋ van miŋ̟] ⓘ; 16 February 1916 – 6 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm.
Pham had already taken up the matter previously with Chief of the Joint General Staff General Cao Văn Viên, to no avail. Thuần had been Thieu's chief of staff when the latter commanded the 5th Division in 1962. The division, together with General Du Quoc Dong's airborne units, remained Thiệu's major power center. In the interests of ...
While a student, Giáp had taken lodgings with Professor Dang Thai Minh, [26] whose daughter, Nguyen Thi Minh Giang (also cited as Nguyễn Thị Quang Thái ; 1915–1944), [27] [28] he had first met at school in Hue. She too had learned nationalism from her father and had joined the revolutionary activities with which Giáp was involved.
On 14 March 1975 following the loss of Ban Me Thuot, Phú flew to Cam Ranh Base for a meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, chairman of the Joint General Staff (JGS) General Cao Văn Viên, Lt Gen. Đặng Văn Quang and Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm.