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Mar 27, 1933 Hóc Môn, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Died on 30 Apr 1975 (aged 42)
South Vietnamese commander
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About Lê Văn Hưng
- Lê Van Hung (27 March 1933 – 30 April 1975) was born in Hóc Môn, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, and graduated from Th? Ð?c Military Academy, 5th class, in 1955.
- He held many commands in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) from company to battalion level.
- Hung was perhaps best known as the "Hero of An L?c" in 1972 when he commanded the 5th Division in defense of the city of An L?c from the coordinated attacks of the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces in the Battle of An L?c. In April 1971 Hung was appointed to take over the battered 5th Division from General Nguy?n Van Hi?u.
- General Hi?u's forces had been badly handled during the Battle of Snuol, and his troops, according to II Field Force, Vietnam commander Michael S.
- Davison, were close to mutiny.
- Unfortunately, Hung was the one ARVN officer whose candidacy American advisers had specifically recommended against.Living in a tiny underground bunker for almost three months, Hung commanded soldiers of the 5th Division, the 81st Airborne Ranger Battalion, the 11th Airborne Brigade, the 21st Division and the Provincial Forces of Bình Long Province.
- His forces repelled countless waves of attack by the PAVN infantry, supported by T-54 tanks.
- Hung vowed, "If I’m still alive, An L?c still stands." His strong determination to hold An L?c at any cost, and the fighting spirit of the ARVN soldiers, kept An L?c from falling into PAVN hands. However US advisers reported that Hung "choked" and "didn't do a damn thing"; and threatened (privately) to shoot his deputy division commander at An L?c.
- According to Brig.
- Gen.
- John R.
- McGiffert II, An L?c would never have held out without the handful of American advisers directing the air strikes and shoring up the local leadership.'" Some of the few South Vietnamese leaders to stand out were Col.
- Le Quang Luong, an airborne brigade commander, and Col.
- Tran Van Nhut, the local province chief.
- Following the heavy fighting, Thieu replaced almost all of the division commanders in the zone with Hung being replaced by an Airborne officer, but promoted to be deputy III Corps commander.Hung was promoted to General in the field; and later commanded the 21st Division before becoming Deputy Commander of the 4th Military Region (MR4). When the PAVN made their "H? Chí Minh Campaign" final assault on South Vietnam in April 1975, before listening to the capitulation order of President Duong Van Minh, General Hung planned a secret operation to send remaining ARVN soldiers and officers at jungles and military bases that would continue counterattack against VC units after Fall of Sagion.
- There he and his soldiers follow orders by the colonel to execute the location of secret delta places on long-term strategic resistance against VC for few months until PAVN/VC declare a ceasefire hoping a new South Vietnam country at Mekong Delta.
- Unfortunately, the colonel and the captain who planned to execute the order of secret operation escaped to sea shortly after President Minh surrender.
- Both ARVN generals in Can Tho were seriously concerned the future of Can Tho after RVN government dissolved.
- ARVN soldiers in Can Tho start to disband when no order was made to secret places in Mekong Region.
- VC captured several districts across Mekong Delta.
- Both ARVN generals decided not to counterattack in Can Tho realized the VC will shelled bombarded heavily in Can Tho.
- At 8 P.M, General Hung gathered his headquarters staff, ARVN soldiers, and family to say goodbye.
- He was unable to fight to the death because the townspeople of C?n Tho had begged him not to resist, believing that it would cause futile bloodshed.
- Hung was one of five ARVN generals who committed suicide that day.
- The IV Corps was shortly handed over to VC after the death of Le Van Hung.
- His commander, Major General Nguy?n Khoa Nam, committed suicide on the early morning of 1 May 1975.
- Both were buried in Can Tho military cemetery.
