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Rank. Captain. Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Other work. High school teacher, cost engineer. Đỗ Kiếm, writing as Kiem Do ( Hanoi, 1933) is a former officer of the Republic of Vietnam Navy, who was serving as Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) when Saigon fell in 1975. He secretly organised the evacuation of over 30,000 refugees aboard 32 ...
Kiem Do, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, worked for twenty years as a cost engineer for a Louisiana utility company. Julie Kane, a former George Bennett Fellow in Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, has published three collections of poetry. She is completing a Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. Available at Various Locations on the Internet.
Oct 21, 2023 · Kiem Do served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the Republic of Vietnam Navy in the early 1970s. Faced with the imminent fall of Saigon in the spring of 1975, Do led a massive – but secret ...
Kiem Do, Captain, South Vietnamese Navy (in Vietnamese, subtitled): Mr. Armitage called and said, "Captain Kiem! We have to leave today." We have to leave today." Some of ships were in disrepair.
Several weeks before Saigon fell, Armitage had met with Captain Kiem Do, RVNN deputy chief of staff, to plan the rescue of its ships when the government surrendered. Kiem warned Armitage that they would be saving more than ships. The crews would not leave without their families. “There will be a lot of people,” he told the American.
Jan 1, 1998 · The story of the heroic way in which this was accomplished is part of the life story of Kiem Do, an illustrious and patriotic veteran."-Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., USN (Ret.) "As well written and detailed as most novels, Counterpart gives a fascinating view of the Vietnam War from a drastically under-represented point of view-the Vietnamese.
- Kiem Do, Julie Kane
Kiem Do, a native of Hanoi, was a captain in the South Vietnamese Navy and the deputy chief of staff for operations when Saigon fell in 1975. During his twenty-one years in the navy, he served as district commander, chief of staff of the Mobile Riverine Force, and commandant of the Vietnamese Midshipman's School.
