Duong Van "Big" Minh, 86, who was president of South Vietnam ... Minh, the second-highest-ranking general at the time, took power under a military junta. Two months later, Gen.

The Hanoi regime carefully avoided either endorsing or condemning Minh, whose brother, Duong Van Nhut, was a leading North Vietnamese army general. In 1973, Minh used his standing to propose his ...

Duong Van Minh, army officer and politician ... These were battles in which General Minh was actively engaged and they increased his popularity in Saigon. As soon as President Ngo Dinh Diem ...

General Duong Van Minh, who as the last president of South Vietnam surrendered his country to Communist forces in 1975, has died in the United States at the age of 86. The general - universally known ...

When Major General Duong Van Minh attempted to return to his native South Viet Nam in 1965, the tower at Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport refused to grant his plane landing clearance and he had to ...

Khanh was the South Vietnamese general who overthrew coup leader Duong Van Minh in 1964 to become prime minister of South Vietnam. He held the position for only about a year, before being exiled ...

Paratroopers and marines quietly surrounded the houses occupied by South Viet Nam’s Chief of State, General Duong Van (“Big”) Minh, and four other top members of his ruling junta.

Inside the palace, all the cabinet members of the South Vietnamese government, with General Duong Van Minh as its president, were sitting around a big table, nervously drinking tea. The attack had ...

GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH, who has died aged 85, was president of South Vietnam for three days before Saigon fell in 1975. GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH, who has died aged 85, was president of South Vietnam ...