Dang Van Quang and Do Thi Nam Oral History Part 1

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Published 2018-09-11

Vietnamese language interview with Dang Van Quang and Do Thi Nam of San Jose, California. Dang Van Quang was born in Soc Trang, Vietnam in 1929 and became a lieutenant general in the South Vietnamese Army. Do Thi Nam was born in 1932 and is from Can Tho, Vietnam. In 1975, Dang Quang managed to flee the country and was processed in a refugee camp in Guam then Fort Chaffee in the US. They have lived in Canada and the cities of Atlanta and Long Beach before finally settling in Sacramento, California.

This interview is part of the Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive. vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/ Interviews were conducted by the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation as part of the national 500 Oral Histories Project. The interviewee has granted The Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation copyright of the audio, video and photo materials and it is being made available for non-profit educational use.

Additionally, this interview was recorded in the process of producing VIETNAMERICA, a feature-length film and follow-up to the short documentary, Master Hoa's Requiem. Not all interview materials were included in the final film. The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Hoa escaped Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends. He is the sole survivor. www.vietnameseamerican.org/