Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dương Hiếu Nghĩa (c. 1925 – 14 April 2019) was a Colonel in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). He graduated from the Đà Lạt National Military Academy. During the Vietnam War, he served in various infantry and armored units. His highest administrative position was Province Chief of Vĩnh Long.
The tanks were led by Colonel Dương Hiếu Nghĩa, a Catholic member of the Dai Viet. He surrounded the home of General Khánh, and Gia Long Palace , the residence of head of state Sửu. [ 35 ] [ 51 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] When he was spotted by the press, Phát emerged from a tank to quip "This operation is to expel Nguyễn Khánh from the ...
Broadcast Title Eps. Prod. Cast and crew Theme song(s) Genre Notes (to be released) [1] [2] [3] [4]Mẹ biển (Mother Ocean) VFC Nguyễn Phương Điền (director); Toto Chan, Ngọc Bích (writers); Thái Hòa, Trương Minh Quốc Thái, Kim Tuyến, Cao Thái Hà, Hương Giang, Trung Dân, Việt Anh, Tuyết Thu, Kiến An, Đình Hiếu, Phúc An, Thanh Thức, Quang Thái, Trúc Mây ...
[9] After Khánh's seizure of power, Vietnamese military officers referred to the leadership change as "Harkins's Revenge" or "The Pentagon's Coup". [60] All the main Vietnamese figures from both sides, including Khánh himself, Minh, Đôn, Đính and Tho all agreed in later years that the US was heavily and decisively involved and that a coup ...
The September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt took place before dawn on September 13, 1964, when the ruling military junta of South Vietnam, led by General Nguyễn Khánh, was threatened by a coup attempt headed by Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức, who sent dissident units into the capital Saigon. They captured various key ...
Nguyễn Văn Nhung (1919 or 1920 – 31 January 1964) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). After joining the French Army in 1944 during the colonial era of Vietnam, he soon met and became the aide-de-camp and bodyguard of Dương Văn Minh, and spent the rest of his career in this role as Minh rose up the ranks to become a general.
The convoy was led by General Mai Hữu Xuân and the brothers were guarded inside the APC by Major Dương Hiếu Nghĩa and Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, Minh's bodyguard. [109] Before the convoy had departed for the church, Minh was reported to have gestured to Nhung with two fingers. This was taken to be an order to kill both brothers.
Xuân served under Prime Minister Nguyễn Văn Tâm during the French-backed State of Vietnam era in the 1950s in military security. [1] When Diệm became Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam, Xuân fought for him as an officer in the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) in the Battle for Saigon in May 1955, against the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate that sought to take over the capital. [2]