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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.
Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. [2] [3] Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member. [2]
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
“The Stringer” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that ...
Lê Thị Ngọc Hân was the twenty-first and youngest daughter of emperor Lê Hiển Tông who arranged her marriage at the age of sixteen to Nguyễn Huệ, who later reigned as Emperor Quang Trung, for whom she left two admirable poems in chữ Nôm, moving laments for her husband.
In 1969 General Le Ngoc Trien replaced General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu as Division commander. [6]: 364 From 5–25 May 1970 the 40th Regiment participated in Operation Binh Tay I an early phase of the Cambodian Campaign with the US 1st and 2nd Brigades, 4th Infantry Division. On 17 May the US forces returned to South Vietnam, leaving the area to ...
Nhi Ngoc Mai Le, 27, of Montgomery, pleaded guilty last year in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to disorderly conduct and illegally demonstrating at the Capitol, both misdemeanors.
Nguyễn Ngọc Lễ (1918–1972) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.He was also the head of the National Police in the 1950s. Lễ strongly advocated the assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother and advisor Ngô Đình Nhu after they were arrested at the end of an army coup.