Preface: A Self-Expression
General Hieu's life
- His Military Career
- South Vietnam Military Map
- My Brother, General Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Cadet Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Graduation Ceremony of 1st Class of Dalat Military Academy (Bui Dzung)
- US Army Command and General Staff College's Report Card
- A Patriot (Nguyen Thi Thu Lam)
- General Hieu's Parents (Nguyen Van Huong)
- General Hieu's Family Evacuation (Nguyen Van Tri)
- Letters from the Front-Line (Major General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- General Hieu In His Rapport With Others. (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Valiant General Nguyen Van Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Virtuous and Religious Traits of General Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, A Competent General (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, A Low-Key And Discreet General (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, A Lonesome General (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, A Martial Arts Master (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, A Likable Fellow and A Revered Commander (Nguyen Van Tin)
- I Knew The General
- Possibly A Saint ? (Colonel Quan Minh Giau)
- Quarterback versus Head-coach (Nguyen Van Tin)
- An All Around Commander (Pham Phong Dinh)
- General Patton and his Counterpart General Hieu (James Miguez)
- General Hieu, 3rd Class Tran Hung Dao/MAVN (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu and Superstition (Nguyen Van Tin)
- A Harvard Graduate (Nguyen Van Tin)
- A Simple General (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Ups and Downs in General Hieu's Military Career (Nguyen Van Tin)
- South Vietnam Did Not Lack Heroes (Phan Nhat Nam)
- Military Tandem Tri Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Tender Loving Care (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu, a Tactician with a Strategist's Mind (Nguyen Van Tin)
General Hieu's Photo Album (Kept by Nguyen Van Dung)
General Hieu's Death
- My Brother's Death (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Kills Self In Saigon Dispute (UPI)
- Deputy Commander Of the Saigon Area Is Found Shot Dead (The New York Times)
- The Mysterious Death of General Hieu (Dang Van Nham)
- First Letter Stating the Fact (Colonel Nguyen Khuyen)
- Cover-Up of General Hieu's Death (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Second Letter Stating the Fact (Colonel Ta Thanh Long)
- General Hieu Died At 12:30 p.m. Or 6:30 p.m. (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Captain Do Duc's Testimony (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Third Letter Stating the Fact (Brigadier General Le Trung Tuong)
- A Few Additional Testimonies (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu As Chessman in President Thieu's Chess Game (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Who Wanted General Hieu Dead ? (Nguyen Van Tin)
- I Asked the CIA About My Brother's Death (Nguyen Van Tin)
- What Does The US Army Know About My Brother's Death (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu's Dead Mentioned in April 09, 1975 Press Summary (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Final Report on General Hieu's Death (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Requiescat In Pace (Nguyen Van Tin)
General Staff Officer (7/1953-11/1963; 12/1963-09/1964; 10/1964-06/1966)
- A Sketch of the General Staff Period (Nguyen Van Tin)
- 1st Infantry Division Chief of Staff (Lieutenant Colonel Duong Dien Nghi)
- II Corps Chief of Staff (Captain Nguyen Minh Am)
- Colonel Hieu and Colonel Mataxis, II Corps Chief of Staff and II Corps Senior Advisor (Nguyen Van Tin)
Commanding General of 1st Division (11/1963-12/1963)
- 1st Infantry Division Acting Commander (Nguyen Van Tin)
Commanding General of 22nd Division (9/1964-10/1964; 6/1966-8/1969)
- 22nd Infantry Division Commander (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Colonel Hieu and the 09/13/1964 Military Putsch
- Portrait of a Competent and Virtuous General (Colonel Trinh Tieu)
- General Hieu Under Colonel Chief of Staff Le Khac Ly's eyes (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Colonel Hieu's Apolitical Stance
- Simplicity, Honesty, Charity (Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Anh Ton)
- Tribute to Colonel Hieu, 22nd Division Commander (General John Tolson)
- Progress Report on II Corps (General Stanley R. Larsen)
- Evaluation of ARVN 22nd Division(American Combat Assistant Team)
- General Hieu Hand-picked his Company Commander (Tran Hoai Thu)
Commanding General of 5th Division (8/1969-6/1971)
- 5th Infantry Division Commander (Nguyen Van Tin)
- American Advisor's Evaluation on General Hieu (American Combat Assistant Teams)
- A Discussion Session between General Hieu and General McAuliffe (General D.P. McAuliffe)
- Bronze Star of Valor Award (General Creighton Abrams)
- The Selection of 1/8th Battalion Commander (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu Chose Me to be his 2/8th Battalion Commander (Tran Luong Tin)
- General Hieu's Meeting with his Commanders (Lieutenant Colonel Trinh Dinh Dang)
- Orders of Operation (General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- General Hieu and his Americans' Contacts (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Problems Encountered By 5th Division in Vietnamization (Lieutenant Colonel George Layman)
- Eulogy For Colonel Roy Couch (Major General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- Letters From Viet Nam (Colonel Roy Couch)
- General Hieu, A Friend of Mine (Colonel John G. Hayes)
- A Christian Gentleman (Colonel Robert P. Lott)
- Planning Conference With 1st Infantry Division (US) (Major Sidney L. Linver)
- General Hieu Moving His Headquarters to Lai Khe (General Tri and General McAuliffe)
- Defense of Lai Khe Base Camp (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Assessment of 5th Infantry Division (George W. Ashworth)
- Pacification Program (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu's Opinion About The Vietnamization Program (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu and the Delta Clan (Brigadier General Tran Van Nhut)
- American Advisors' Evaluation of 5th Division's Officers (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu and General Creighton Abrams (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu's Helicopter (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu met with General Minh after the troop retreat out of Snoul (6/1971) (Nguyen Ngoc Tung)
Deputy Commander of I Corps (6/1971-2/1972)
- A Sinecure Position (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The 1st Corps Commander Recalls His Deputy (General Hoang Xuan Lam)
- Lam Son 719
- General Phan Dinh Soan Killed in Helicopter Crash
Minister of Anti-corruption (2/1972-12/1973)
- Anti-corruption Investigator (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Hopes and Disappointments of the Anti-corruption Investigator (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Vietnam Corruption Case (George McArthur)
- Report on SMASF's Scandal (Major General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- General Hieu's Talk on Corruption (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- Corruption in South Vietnam, 07/19/1972 (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- Thieu Ousts Defense Minister in Scandal (The New York Times)
- General Hieu's Talk on Special Decree On Corruption (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- Translation of July 14 Speech by General Hieu (Deputy Ambassador Whitehouse)
- Corruption In Judicial System (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- Three Corruption Cases: Dung, Judicial Police and Phung Hoang (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- Seven Colonels Were Punished In The SMASF Scandal (Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker)
- General Hieu's Review of Anti-Corruption Work ( Deputy Ambassador Whitehouse)
- Vice President Huong's Speech on Corruption
- Corruption in Military Region 3 (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Corruption in Military Region 2 (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Corruption Case of General Nguyen Van Minh (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Corruption Case of Colonel Tran Trong Nghia (American Consul General in Can Tho)
- Corruption Case of Colonel Mach Van Truong (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Corruption Plague (Nguyen Van Tin)
Deputy Commander of III Corps (12/1973-4/1975)
- Assistant To Three III Corps Commanders (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Thuan Was Assigned MR3 Commander
- General Hieu Assigned III Corps Deputy Commander
- General Hieu's View of VC Intentions
- General Hieu's View of Duc Hue Battlefront
- Situation of An Dien Battle on June 04, 1974 (Major General Hieu)
- General Dong Was Assigned MR3 Commander
- General Dong's Comments on January 1975 Military Situation in MR3 (CIA Intelligence Information)
- General Hieu's Assessment of January 1975 Military Situation in III Corps (CIA Intelligence Information)
- 3-75 Assessment of the Situation in South Vietnam (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Toan Was Assigned MR3 Commander
- General Hieu's View on Tri Tam Battle (Richard Peters)
- MR3 HQ Describes Near-Term Threats in the Region (Richard Peters)
- March 1975 Troop Deployments in III Corps (Richard Peters)
- Vietnam Assessment Report, April 4, 1975 (General Fred C. Weyand)
- Vietnam Situation in April 1975 (Clinton E. Granger)
- Military Situation on April 8-9, 1975 (Ambassador Graham Martin)
- Military Situation On April 10, 1975 (Malcolm W. Brown, The New York Times)
- The Last Act in the South (Colonel Williams Le Gro)
- Interview of Richard Peters (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu and Richard Peters (Nguyen Van Tin)
- A Conversation With General Le Minh Dao (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Hieu's Frustration (Nguyen Van Tin)
General Hieu's Military Exploits
- Two Troop Insertions into Do Xa (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Do Xa Campaign (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Do Xa Strike Mission (Major Franklin A. Gulledge)
- US Army 52nd Aviation Battalion Supporting Do Xa Campaign (William E. McGee)
- Sure Wind 202 (Captain Robert H. Whitlow, USMCR)
- Do Xa Operation in New York Times
- The Special Forces Jumped in Do Xa (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Attack and Counter-Attack on Highway 19 (Colonel Theodore Mataxis)
- Two Perspectives of the March 1965 K'Nak Battle
- VC's 1965 Dong Xuan Campaign and II Corps' Strategy (Colonel Theodore Mataxis)
- II Corps Coping With VC's Attacks In Phu Bon, Pleiku and Kontum (Colonel Theodore Mataxis)
- Road-Clearing Operation (Major General Vinh Loc)
- Rescuing Duc Co CIDG Camp (Colonel Theodore Mataxis)
- Reviewing "Why Pleime" (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Why Pleime (Major General Vinh Loc)
- Battle of Pleime (Nguyen Van Tin)
- CIDG in Camp Defense (Plei Me) (5th Special Forces Group, Airborne)
- Plei Me Battle (Tran Quoc Canh)
- Plei Me Fight Stands As War Turning Point (Wallace Beene)
- 1st US Cavalry Division Gives Support in the Battle at Plei Me (Lieutenant General John H. Hay, Jr)
- Seven Days of Zap (Time Magazine)
- Pleime Campaign (NVA Document)
- Than Phong 7 Operation (General H. Norman Schwarzkopf)
- American Perspective of Pleime Battle (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Truth about the Pleime Campaign (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Crushing the American Troops in Central Highlands (Major General Nguyen Nam Khanh)
- Crushing the American Troops in Western Highlands or in Danang? (Nguyen Van Tin)
- NVA 66th Regiment in Pleime-Ia Drang Campaign (Nguyen Huy Toan and Pham Quang Dinh)
- The Fog of War: The Vietnamese View of the Ia Drang Battle (Merle L. Pribbenow)
- What Really Happened at Ia Drang Battle (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Political Commissar at the First Battle Against the Americans in Central Highlands (General Dang Vu Hiep)
- Pleime Campaign or Pleime-Ia Drang Campaign? (Nguyen Van Tin)
- The Unfolding of Strategic and Tactical Moves of Pleime Campaign (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Things the VC Don't Want People To Know at Pleime Battle (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Pleime Through New York Times' View
- The Ia Drang Valley Battle? Which One? (Nguyen Van Tin)
- General Schwarzkopf's Na�vet� In Ia Drang Battle (Nguyen Van Tin)
- LZ X-Ray After Action Report - LTC Hal Moore and Colonel Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Pleime Battle's Diary (Colonel Nguyen Van Hieu)
- The Two Principal Players of Pleime Chess Game (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Tactical Moves in Pleime Battle (Nguyen Van Tin)
- "Victory at Pleime Battle" ? (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Operation Eagles Claw 800 (Colonel Trinh Tieu)
- Eagles Claw 800 in the US 1st Cavalry Division's Operations Context (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Operation Total Victory 46 (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Operation Total Victory 8/B/5 (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Sensor Operations (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Operation Loc Ninh (Major General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- Operation Snoul (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Military Situation on Snoul Battleground (Tran Van Thuong)
- The Retreat of Snoul (Nguyen Van Tin)
- A Trip Through the Gates of Hell (Dan Sutherland)
- US 3rd Squadron/17th Air Cavalry Supporting Snoul (Major General Nguyen Van Hieu)
- Snoul Battle As Reported By The New York Times
- Hanoi's Rainy-Season Surge (Time)
- VC's Perspective of Snoul Battle
- The Truth of a Forgotten Battlefield (Tran Van Thuong)
- The Art of Troop Withdrawal (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Duc Hue Battlefront (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Svay Rieng Operation (Samuel Lipsman and Stephen Weiss)
- Cambodian Battles (Colonel Williams Le Gro)
- Iron Triangle Campaign (Samuel Lipsman and Stephen Weiss)
- Binh Duong Battlefronts (Colonel Williams Le Gro)
- Phuoc Long Battle (Clark Dougan and David Fulghum)
- The Last Christmas: Phuoc Long (Colonel Williams Le Gro)
Tandem Infantry Armor Formula
- The Unique Combat Style of General Hieu (Nguyen Van Tin)
- Pictures of Armored Vehicles
- General Hieu and Tandem Infantry Armor Formula (Nguyen Van Tin)
Epilogue
- Psychic Pen Phenomenon (1)
- Psychic Pen Phenomenon (2)
Appendixes
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