Kiem Do

Kiem Do

Captain Kiem Do was the former deputy chief of staff for operations in the Republic of Vietnam Navy.

He served with United States Navy advisor Richard Armitage and stated that he "seemed drawn like a 'moth to flame' to the hotspots of the naval war: bedding down on the ground with Vietnamese commandos, sharing their rations and hot sauce, telling jokes in flawless Vietnamese." [Do Kiem and Julie Kane, "Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War", ISBN 1-55750-181-5, 1998, p. 164.] Instead of a uniform, Armitage often dressed in native garb, and was nicknamed Tran Van Phu by the Vietnamese." [Do Kiem and Julie Kane, "Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War", ISBN 1-55750-181-5, 1998, p. 164.]

In 1974, he took part in the Battle of Hoang Sa between China.

Prior to the fall of Saigon, he secretly planned and quietly carried out the evacuation of thirty-five ships and some thirty thousand at-risk South Vietnamese navy sailors to the country to Subic Bay, Philippines.

He was given political asylum to the United States and lives in exile in Gretna, Louisiana and he worked for twenty years as a cost engineer for a Louisiana utility company.

References

External links

* [http://www.mrfa.org/Counterpart.Book.htm Counterpart A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War]
* [http://www.vietquoc.com/hoangsa.htm The Paracel Islands (Hoang-Sa) Sea Battle]
* [http://ppl.nhmccd.edu/~eugenet/Morgenthau.html USCGC MORGENTHAU (WHEC-722) Vietnam 1970 - 1971 by Commander Eugene N. Tulich, U. S. Coast Guard (Ret)]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-6c.htm Oral Histories: U.S. Navy Nurse in Saigon, 1963, During Vietnam Conflict]
* [http://www.politicalreviewnet.com/polrev/reviews/PECH/R_0149_0508_008_20381.asp Facing My Lai: Moving beyond the Massacre]


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