General Duong Van Minh (born 1916) was the first and last of a string of leaders who governed South Vietnam in the dozen years between the overthrow of President Diem and the fall of Saigon. In 1963, Duong Van Minh represented pro-American,...

(1916–2001), last president of the Republic of Vietnam. Duong Van Minh was born in 1916 in My Tho in the Mekong Delta. He received military training in France and in 1955 became an army officer in the Republic of Vietnam. Known as "Big...

Dương Văn Minh (help·info) (February 16 1916 – August 6 2001), known popularly as “Big Minh”, was a Vietnamese general and politician. He led the South Vietnamese army under Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm. In 1963, he became leader...

DUONG VAN MINH was the last president of the Republic of Vietnam in Saigon, albeit for only two days before the city was captured by Communist forces, most of them coming from the North, on 30 April 1975. He remained in the presidential...

Ho Chi Minh. The name triggers conflicting emotions and images for Americans who came of age in the '60s. Was he a Comintern agent working with Beijing and Moscow to bring Vietnam into the international communist orbit? A Vietnamese nationalist seeking independence and unity...