How to Pronounce Ngô Quang Trưởng
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Dec 13, 1929 Died on 22 Jan 2007 (aged 77)
South Vietnamese commander
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About Ngô Quang Trưởng
- Ngô Quang Tru?ng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).
- Tru?ng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, mostly in the Airborne Brigade.
- In 1966, Tru?ng commanded a division for the first time after he was given command of the 1st Division after helping to quell the Buddhist Uprising.
- He rebuilt the unit after this divisive period and used it to repel the communists and reclaimed the imperial citadel of Hu? after weeks of bitter street fighting during the T?t Offensive.
- In 1970, Tru?ng was given command of IV Corps in the Mekong Delta and improved the situation there to such an extent that he allowed some of his forces to be redeployed to other parts of the country that were finding the communist pressure difficult.In 1972, he was made the commander of I Corps after incompetent leadership by General Hoàng Xuân Lãm resulted in a South Vietnamese collapse in the face of the Easter Offensive, a massive conventional invasion by North Vietnam.
- He stabilized the ARVN forces before turning back the communists. In 1975, the communists attacked again.
- This time, President Nguy?n Van Thi?u gave contradictory orders to Tru?ng as to whether he should stand and fight or give up some territory and consolidate.
- This led to the demoralization of I Corps and its collapse, allowing the communists to gather momentum and overrun South Vietnam within two months.
- Tru?ng fled South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon and settled in Virginia in the United States.
