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Title
David Nguyen
The Escape From Saigon
Contributor
Emge, Zachary
Oliveira, Luma
Bachand, Anna
Villalobos, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued
2016-02-28
Publication Information
http://anotherwarmemorial.com/david-nguyen/
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam
Rights Information
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Description
Anna Bachand, from Irving, TX, is a Junior at USC studying Biomedical Engineering Michael Villalobos is a first year transfer student at USC, and is majoring in Environmental Science and Health with a pre-dental emphasis. Luma Oliveira is a Senior at USC, from Brazil, and is majoring in Accounting. Zachary Emge is a senior at USC studying History with an emphasis in U.S. History. [Profiler bio]
David Nguyen is a native of Vietnam. At seventeen years old and in the 11th grade, he escaped with his family from the city of Saigon. They left on April 30, 1975 - the day that the city was captured by the North Vietnamese communist forces. Nguyen now resides in Simi Valley, California. He is an active contributor to archives of Southern Vietnamese experiences during and after the war in Viet Nam. He participated in an interview with PBS and also writes of his various experiences in his own personal blog. His escape story can be found here. In 2013, Nguyen visited the refugee camp in Pennsylvania that he references in this archive. He wrote a blog about this experience. The English version can be found here, and the Vietnamese version here. [Profile bio]
Type
image
Format
1 image
3 video files (00:15:14)
3 transcripts
Identifier
nguyendavid-profileimage
nguyendavid-vid1
nguyendavid-vid1_tr1
nguyendavid-vid2
nguyendavid-vid2_tr2
nguyendavid-vid3
nguyendavid-vid3_tr3
http://doi.org/10.25549/viet-c80-424
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/nguyendavid-profileimage.jpg
Language
English
Subject
Vietnam
Vietnam war
Refugee
Escape
Saigon
Communist
Fall of Saigon
Time Period
1975
Place
California
Pennsylvania
San Diego
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
Vũng Tàu
Vung Tau
USA
Vietnam
Thailand
Malaysia
Japan
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
An Other War Memorial--Memories of the American War in Viet Nam

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