Sound set / Oral History of Tom Truong

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Title: Oral History of Tom Truong
Creator: Truong, Tom
Contributor: Bui, Khanh
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-04-23
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history with Mr. Tom Truong, born in 1940 in Ninh Binh, Vietnam. He shared his experiences with the Viet Minh and reeducation camp before he and his family migrated to South Vietnam in 1954. In 1963, he joined the Navy division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and served until 1975 when he and his family resettled in the United States. He extensively discussed his memories in North Vietnam before the 1954 migration as well as his experiences with the Navy before the end of the Vietnam War. He also briefly shared his experiences with acculturation in the United States.
Scope/Content: This recording is from the Viet Stories Community Interviewers subcollection.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese
Extent: 00:38:20
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8t448
VAOHP0136_T01
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11972
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Subject: Acculturation | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Communism | Communist | Education | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Family reunification | Language barrier | Navy (VN) | Reeducation camp | Resettlement | Viet Cong | Viet Minh | Vietnam, Northern | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1940-1949
Relation: Community Interviewers

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