Michael Tran - The Vietnam War

Hai T.
College Student (at the time)
My Dad
Around 50s years old
2nd Phase of the Vietnam War

• Viet Cong used their women because of the gender equality reform, recruiting a countless number of women into their army. They are incredibly mean, hid grenades in fruit baskets and hand them to US troops. The grenades would explode and the soldiers would die/get wounded
• Believed that modern war communists such as the Taliban utilize the tactics of the North Vietnamese soldiers.
• The Viet Congs used a truck that is filled with cabbage and drove up to a US place and a bunch of cabbage rolled down (they had bombs inside them), they placed claymores in there and it exploded, my dad’s house was near the fort in Saigon, ½ of the building exploded and everyone was scared, called the Metropoll Military Base, a place for troops to rest. Because it was a claymore, whatever direction the cabbage rolled towards it would explode that direction. So a bunch of Vietnamese Police kicked the cabbage away from my dad’s house to prevent it from getting exploded. (1965).
• VCs would walk pass the US Soldiers and put their hands in their pockets, the soldiers thought that they were about to pull out nades, but it was a dog, the Soldiers shot the dude. It was just a citizen and he didn’t undertand the soldier’s warning because he did not know English.
• Diem loved his country and did not do any harm to other people, believed his family, many VCs were hiding in Buddhist temple, the VCs actually protested to overthrow Diem because of his discrimination against busshism, but the VCs set it up, they were the busshist monks, not revealing their true identity. VCs shaved their heads, and acted as temple monks. Some other temple monks had to burn themselves (VCs) >.>. Diem did this in order to eliminate these temple monks.

Dung Nguyen
Major of the South Vietnamese Police SWAT
Family Friend
Around 60s year old
The 2nd Phase of the Vietnam War


• – American Soldiers came to Vietnam, it just started
Date: 64 to 68 – Strong Intensifingn of war
Mac Trang Giai Phong Mien Nam/ Vietnam, support given by VC Mien Bac (China/Russia Government).
(high School at the name), Saigon
Volneenteer South Vietnamese Police Dept.
Worked for the South Government
Prevent VC from entering South Vietnam
April 30th 1975 – The fall of Saigon witnessing
• Pretended as civilians who live ordinary lives
• 1972 – There is an agreement between US Government and the South Vietnam/ North Vietnam, Peace Agreement in France, Paris .
• Khi Dong Minh Tao Chay cua Nguyen Tien Hung (Professor @ US University)
• Johnson wanted people to emigrate to the US
• Officers go along with the Vietnamese Gov. Policy for education, Soldiers has to go and learn for 3 days and children, citizens. Colonel, Major, Captain (commissioned officer), rank higher learn more and educated, reducation camp longer, some ppl 10 years and some 30 years. People in the Intelligence Unit go to school longer.

Viet Bien (Escaping Vietnam) –
• Rat Gia, to Malaysia (by boat), 3 nights and 4 days, the US had to interview (embassy), asked about immigrant to America, agreed to. Pirated 2 times, pirates came to his boat and took money, gold and belongings (all of them), Malaysia did not want a lot of people in and took baton and beat down a lady (phramachist) and she died and another person (a guy) who died .
Canh Huynh
Sister of South Vietnamese Prime Minister
Family Friend
Around 70s Years Old
2nd Phase of the Vietnam War
(over the phone, but she lives in Seattle)
• Witness the Viet Congs invading Saigon, many events happen, like the ones described above.
• Talked about the Buddhist Protest and how it wasn’t Diem’s fault, Diem is a very trusty man, her dad had very good relations with Diem back then.
• Knows that Diem has been accused of discrimination against the Buddhist dudes but that isn’t true and that the Viet Congs only brought up the matter to overthrow Diem.
• The Tet event was very scary for her, about how VCs attacked random troops in the city of Saigon when everyone else was celebrating one of Vietnam’s most largest holidays
• Couldn’t remember much just the main events I described above