Summary: An oral history with Mr. Binh Truong, a graduate of a community college in Washington State where he majored in aerospace engineering and graduated at top honors with a 4.3 GPA. The interview focuses on his early life in Vietnam as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force, his time in Camp Pendleton where he was later sponsored by a family in Washington, his experience balancing two jobs in college and graduating with the top honors, and his many careers that followed. I wanted to focus on his experience as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force but found that he had many other interesting stories that were equally as important to his life experience.

Decade of Birth: 1940-1949

Subject (s): Camp Pendleton, California | Vietnam War | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Sponsors | Education | Employment | Engineer | Business owner | Westminster, California | Protests | Communist | Anticommunist | Escape | Red Cross

Type: Sound

Duration: 1:20:48

Language: English

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Provenance: Recorded Digitally

Publisher: University of California, Irvine Libraries. Southeast Asian Archive. Irvine, California 92623-9557.

Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1631