LOAN, Nguyen Ngoc (Major General)

Call No.: K239.0512-229

IRIS No.: 00904113

IRIS Tape No.: 00904114

Accessibility: OPEN

Pages/Time: 55pp/1:32

Class: U

Date/Location: 30 October 1969/Unknown

Interviewers: Lt. Col G. Bergquist and Capt Richard B. Clement

Source: Project CORONA HARVEST Collection

Topics:

(1951-69) Oral history interview with Major General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese. General officer recaps his military career, comments on US military assistance in terms of language barrier, number and type of aircraft, supply and maintenance, training, evolution and needs of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF). Also discussed are the merits of aircraft provided VNAP, restrictions on Farm Gate, early activities of air operations center, development of tactical air control system, training forward air controllers and forward air guides and the impact of increased USAF combat participation on VNAF operations. Also, states on the bombing of the President's Palace February 1962.