Vietnam War Refugee Returns to His Homeland at Helm of Us Warship
Scotland on Sunday › November 09, 2009
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ON THE day his side lost the Vietnam War, five-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later he will make an unlikely homecoming, at the helm of a US navy destroyer.
Commander HB Le was scheduled yesterday to pilot the USS Lassen into Danang, home of China Beach, where US troops rested during the war, which ended on 30 April, 1975, when Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam's troops.See the full content of this document
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Vietnam War Refugee Returns to His Homeland at Helm of Us Warship
That was the day Le and his family embarked on an uncertain journey in a fishing boat piloted by Le's father, a South Vietnamese naval commander.
They we...See the full content of this document
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